RE: backing up logical logs to nul on windows nt
Thats a good one. I should say it's a 'contradictio in terminis'. However
for 'Informix marking' I believe we are facing a paradox.
--Diego Mezzera
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Agnew <dagnew@charlottepipe.com>
To: <informix-list@iiug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: backing up logical logs to nul on windows nt
> I wish someone would come up with a better phrase than "backing up logical
> logs to nul". Maybe like 'THROWING AWAY my logs", or "making my database
> un-recoverable". "backing up nul" is probably one of the worst oxymorons
> we've got, kinda like 'Informix marketing'.
>
> Doug
>
> "EA" <appshome@geocities.com> wrote in message
> news:88c7tn$b0i$1@pollux.ip-plus.net...
> > Paul,
> >
> > thanks a lot for your reply. Of course, you're right - I just checked on
> my
> > Unix box and the server does indeed back up the logs automatically as
> > LTAPEDEV is set to /dev/null. I just didn't find that mentioned
> explicitely
> > in the documentation and I always thought that there was an ontape -c
> > running in the background somewhere. Thanks again and
> >
> > Cheers
> > Eckard
> >
> >
> > <mosserp@WellsFargo.COM> wrote in message
> > news:881hu0$1g1$1@news.xmission.com...
> > >
> > > When you set LTAPEDEV to NUL on NT (or even to /dev/null on UNIX),
then
> > you
> > > don't have to do an ontape -- the engine is smart enough to see that
you
> > > just want to throw away the logs, and does that for you. I.e., after
it
> > > moves to the next log, usually after the prior one fills, it simply
> marks
> > > the old one with the 'B' (backed up) flag. You can test this
> yourself --
> > > just do an "onmode -l" (advance to next log) and then an "onstat -l".
> You
> > > should see that the log immediately prior to the current one has
already
> > > been (B)acked-up.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > > Paul Mosser
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: EA [mailto:appshome@geocities.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 3:19 AM
> > > To: informix-list@iiug.org
> > > Subject: backing up logical logs to nul on windows nt
> > >
> > >
> > > [Sorry if this issue has been discussed before, I just can't seem to
> find
> > it
> > > in the archives...]
> > >
> > > Appparently the equivalent for /dev/null as an LTAPEDEV destination
for
> > > logical logs on Unix is NUL on Windows NT.
> > > However, when I set LTAPEDEV to NUL in my onconfig file and try to
> > ontape -a> > > I get an error message saying
> > >
> > > Logbackup failed - Log backup to device 'nul' not allowed
> > >
> > > Is this not supported on the NT platform or what am I doing wrong?
> > > My environment: IDS 7.31 TC2 on Windows NT 4.0 SP4
> > >
> > > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks and
> > > Cheers
> > > E.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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