Re: Antw: Level 0 restore

Thanks. We're using ontape. I was thinking more of if there was a disaster such as a fire, and we lost the machine and the logs along with it. Then we would only have last night's level 0, and no logs at all to roll foward. Thanks everyone for your help. It looks like as long as we're using ontape, there should be no problems. Scott. Quoting "Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at" <Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at>: > >Datum: 2003.01.16 12:55:07 > >Sender: Scott O'Rourke <scott@sccs-ltd.co.uk> > > > >Is it possible to do a level 0 restore without replaying the > logicallogs? > >There seems to be conflicting stories in the CDI archives! > > Depends on type of backup: If you are using ontape or onarchive > the answer is simply YES. > If you are using onbar it depends whether you use > onbar -b -w (whole system backup): YES > onbar -b: NO (because it is a parallel backup and not all dbspaces> have the sime timestamps) > > >I've been looking into disaster recovery for our site, and it occured > to me > >that in the event of a disaster, it is likely that the logical logs > will not be > >recoverable, and therefore cannot be replayed at restore time. > > I think you don't have the most recent logical logs, but maybe you have > some of the logical logs backed up after the level 0 backup . In that > case you can replay at least these logs (would be enough for onbar -b > if you guarantee that you have all the logs from beginning of the level > 0 > backup till the first one afterwards). > > If anyone out there thinks that I'm wrong please tell me. > > Regards, > Andreas > > > ------------------------------------------------ > SPAR Oesterreichische Warenhandels-AG > Hauptzentrale > Europastraße 3 > A-5015 Salzburg > > Telefon : +43 662 4470 24423 > E-Mail : Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at > Internet: http://www.spar.at > ------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------ Scott O'Rourke MIAP Scott's Computer Consultancy Services Ltd. http://www.sccs-ltd.co.uk