RE: Tape drive or No tape drive ?

Posted in 1999

William Raper — Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:47:01 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

The real answer is this: Yes, the situation is as bad as you think it may be. This is why Informix recommends that you have not one, but two tape drives on your box. One for logical logs, the other for archives. Best of luck. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Tan [SMTP:tankc@singnet.com.sg] > Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 4:39 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Tape drive or No tape drive ? > > Currently, we do not have a tape drive installed. Our setting in the > onconfig is > LTAPEDEV /dev/null. What are the implications of these ? > > I have read that the transactions are recorded in the logical logs. Now > that > the logical logs are backup to /dev/null, what would happen when there is > a > power failure ? > > Thanks in advance ! > >