Re: Tape drive or No tape drive ?

Not really. In case of a power failure I think all will be Ok. Remember that logical logs are archived (and in the case of /dev/null device - freed) only when there are no active transactions in there. So - on power up you'll go just in the process of quick recovery with rollback of noncommitted transactions and rollforward of committed ones. The only problem you will have - is in the case of disaster recovery (you will have no the possibillity to restore the updates to databases since the last archive). Best Regards, Octav William Raper wrote: > > You'd be looking for a utility to retrieve the contents of > /dev/null.......... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matthew Tan [SMTP:tankc@singnet.com.sg] > > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 4:39 AM > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Subject: Tape drive or No tape drive ? > > > > Currently, we do not have a tape drive installed. Our setting in the > > onconfig is > > LTAPEDEV /dev/null. What are the implications of these ? > > > > I have read that the transactions are recorded in the logical logs. Now > > that > > the logical logs are backup to /dev/null, what would happen when there is > > a > > power failure ? > > > > Thanks in advance ! > > > > -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 22 99 67 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 22 84 88 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com