Oracle Database Discussions

Hello,

We have a two node RAC and recently we put the db in archive log mode and flashback mode which all went successfully. We made the archive logs go by default in the Flash Recovery Area which is a ASM diskgroup called FLASH.

The problem is when i check the flash recovery area i see the archived logs going in there but there is another location to which it is also going and i am not aware why it is going in this directory $ORACLE_HOME/dbs. Below is the out for archive log list and show parameter archive and db_recovery

SQL> archive log list
Database log mode Archive Mode
Automatic archival Enabled
Archive destination USE_DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST
Oldest online log sequence 86
Next log sequence to archive 87
Current log sequence 87

sql> show parameter db_recovery
NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
db_recovery_file_dest string +FLASH
db_recovery_file_dest_size big integer 3G


SQL> show parameter archive

NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
archive_lag_target integer 0
log_archive_config string
log_archive_dest string
log_archive_dest_1 string
log_archive_dest_10 string
log_archive_dest_2 string
log_archive_dest_3 string
log_archive_dest_4 string
log_archive_dest_5 string
log_archive_dest_6 string
log_archive_dest_7 string

NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
log_archive_dest_8 string
log_archive_dest_9 string
log_archive_dest_state_1 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_10 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_2 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_3 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_4 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_5 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_6 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_7 string enable
log_archive_dest_state_8 string enable

NAME TYPE VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
log_archive_dest_state_9 string enable
log_archive_duplex_dest string
log_archive_format string %t_%s_%r.dbf
log_archive_local_first boolean TRUE
log_archive_max_processes integer 4
log_archive_min_succeed_dest integer 1
log_archive_start boolean FALSE
log_archive_trace integer 0
standby_archive_dest string ?/dbs/arch

I see the standby_archive_dest set to ?/dbs/arch so i'm not sure if this is causing this. Can anyone please point where something is going wrong. Thanks.