Re: Eliminate ontape? failover issue

From: lopez@abqato.abq.sc.philips.com > >Strange. Trying that, We get a message saying the transaction log can not >be >dumped to /dev/null. If you set LTAPEDEV to /dev/null, it automatically backs up logical logs as they fill up. But running ontape -a does produce an error. >Rich Hall <rhall@theramp.net> writes: > > > If you're not concerned with saving them, e.g. you have completed > > another level 0 archive before filling the logs, you could just flush > > them out to /dev/null. Set LTAPEDEV to /dev/null and execute ontape -a. > > Course you'll need to do a new level 0 as soon as possible after that, > > or risk losing the data that was generated between the last L0 and the > > flush. We have had to employ this scheme many time (not by choice) when > > a misbehaving storage manager decided to stop backing up logs. > >-- >Robert.Lopez@Philips.com >Assembly and Test Organization, Philips Semiconductors >Mail Stop 20, 9201 Pan American Fwy. N.E., >Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113 USA [P: (505)822-7112 F: x7237] _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.