Archiving not possible: No primary destinations errors after fixing a space issue on an archive destination

Posted by David Yahalom under Oracle

If space ran out in an archive destination, after you fix the problem, you may still recieve the following error in your alert_log:

ARC1: Archiving not possible: No primary destinations

A quick way to solve this is to modify your archive destination with the reopen parameter. This parameter specifies the minimum number of seconds before redo transport services should try to reopen a failed destination.

SQL> show parameter log_archive_dest_1

NAME                                 TYPE    VALUE
------------------------------------ ------- ------------------------------
log_archive_dest_1                   string  location=/db/orcl/archive

SQL> alter system set log_archive_dest_1='location=/db/orcl/archive reopen=5' scope=both;

System altered.

Following that modification you should start seeing successful archive messages in your alert_log.

ARC1: Beginning to archive log# 1 seq# 115127
...
ARC0: Completed archiving log# 1 seq# 115127
...