Re: How to continue log backups automatically?

In article <5opf6b$6s3@zax.whoville.leftbank.com>, From cos@zax.whoville.leftbank.com (Ofer Inbar), the following was written: >> Problems like this one, and restarting logs after reboot are all why >> I do logs to disk. I have a script that does this automatically, >> just ask if you want it. > > Hold on - you mean to say that if a continuous log backup is left > running, it will just keep overwriting from the beginning of the tape > each time it has a log to back up? If that's true, what was the point > of including this feature in the first place? That doesn't make any > sense! I hate doing logs to tape, so I've never done them except in test. Doing it do disk is SO much easier, for both backup and recovery. So I cannot speak to exactly how log backups to tape work.