Re: Help with full logical logs

Joachim Scherer wrote: > my logical logs are full. ontape -a doesn't work anymore. How can > free the logs without loosing my data. And hopefully without doing > a restore. > We're running Informix 7.12 UC1 on SunSolaris The first question is why doesn't ontape -a work any more? You need to back up those logs. Since you don't want to risk the data, you need to get them backed up. You could change the backup device -- /dev/null might work but would lose the data, but you should be OK with a disk file (this is an emergency). I've not had to do serious receovery work for 5+ years, so I might be off target, but I think that's going to the key. Since you use ontape, any suggestions about switching to another backup system won't help at this point... -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>