Re: Logical Logs Archiving -Reply

I have noticed in that later versions that following an outage of Online, you need to do an initial backup of logs to a real file before Online will allow a backup to /dev/null. I have presumed this to be a feature.(?). Also although it has been stated in this group (and also was my understanding) that ontape -c (or a) does not need to run if logging is to /dev/null, we need to do it here, or the logs will fill. Once again I have presumed that this is either a change in this version or both archive and logging tape devices need to be set to /dev/null for the automatic freeing of the logs to occur. -- -- Peter Tashkoff NZ Kiwifruit Project Consultant/DBA Marketing Board. Standard Disclaimers apply This posting may not be used by any commercial organisation to vilify another. >>> Mak Siu Kei <siumk@b1.hkstar.com> 1/August/1996 10:20pm >>> Yudong Sun (ysun@econnect.ca) wrote: : I used to be able to do: : tbtape -a : to backup logical logs to /dev/null, but now I get the error: : Logbackup failed - Log backup to device /dev/null not allowed : I don't have a tape drive. Is there any work-around other than : re-creating the whole database??? Thanks a lot. : Yudong As far as I know, if the tape parameter of logical log is set to /dev/null, then the log space will be automatically reused. You do not have to do ontape -a Please tell me if I am wrong. BY the way, I am using 7.11 All the best, Alan. -- [ Alan Mak Siu Kei ** siumk@hkstar.com ** (852)71286683 ] ^ ^ "Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes." o o > ---- < -Luke 12:23