Re: Restoring a level-1 backup at a later date?

malc_p@btinternet.com wrote: > To all those who suggested we use HDR for this; there was a small bell > ringing at the back of my mind and eventually I worked out why. > You CANNOT USE HDR TO REPLICATE BLOBSPACES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (At least in > IDS9.30 anyway). > Why oh why oh why the hell not? > > Malc (seething 'cos we'd more of less decided on this course of action.) > > Because of architectural limitations: logging for blobspace blobs is not done though logical logs, but the blobspaces themselves. since the actual changes don't pass thru the logical log buffers, they don't get replicated to the secondary. I guess, since the obvious workaround is to use tablespace blobs for replication, nobody ever bothered to code around this... -- Ciao, Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco /UK /IBM Standard disclaimers apply! Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm 4glworks http://www.4glworks.com Informix on Linux http://www.4glworks.com/ifmxlinux.htm sending to informix-list