Re: Is there any way to rebackup a logical log that has been marked as backed up?

On 15/03/12 13:57, Todd Roy wrote: > > We've been backing up logical logs to disk for some months using a modified > version of Art Kagel's log_full.sh > command. Its been going well, but I noticed that sometimes, if logical logs > get marked as complete fast enough, > some of the logs seem to drop into the bit bucket rather than go to disk. This > may be due to my compressing > the logical log in the script and somehow multiple copies of log_full.sh > running simultaneously. I've fixed the > problem by adding a lock file, but I appear to have missing backups. Any way > to reback these up? > > Thanks in advance, > Todd > Assuming that the logs haven't wrapped - the only way to achieve this is for advanced support to dial in and remove the backed up flag from the logs you are missing (Can be done, I have done it a few times). I would suspect though that, unless you can provide a really robust business need, tech support will just suggest that taking a whole L 0 will eliminate the need to rearchive the missing logs. -- Ciao, Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco /UK /IBM Standard disclaimers apply! Structured Query Scripting Language http://www.4glworks.com/sqsl.htm 4glworks http://www.4glworks.com Informix on Linux http://www.4glworks.com/ifmxlinux.htm