title: Bewildered student vs. ORA-00257 Error--can I fix this? How?
body: <p>Of course my boss is out the day something goes wrong. It's just me, an inexperienced little student here, trying to get our website back up and running. All alone.</p>
  
  <p>The oracle database our site pulls data from won't let me connect (throwing the error on our site), giving me the error: ORA-00257. In full: </p>
  
  <p><strong>ORA-00257: archiver error. Connect internal only, until freed.
  Cause: The archiver process received an error while trying to archive a redo log. If the problem is not resolved soon, the database will stop executing transactions. The most likely cause of this message is the destination device is out of space to store the redo log file.
  Action: Check archiver trace file for a detailed description of the problem. Also verify that the device specified in the initialization parameter ARCHIVE_LOG_DEST is set up properly for archiving.</strong></p>
  
  <p>All I have is the username and password into the database. And of course the Oracle SQL Developer client. </p>
  
  <p>My question is: am I equipped to fix this problem? If so, how? If it's fixable (by me), and someone can explain it, can they explain it very, very slowly and painstakingly? </p>
  
  <p>If anyone can help, even if it's just to say, "You're doomed!" ...thank you in advance.</p>