Re: Applying logical logs

Neil, Try ontape -p. This will do the physical restore and leave the system in fast recovery. When you want to restore logs use ontape -l. Alternatively setup and use HDR. It does all this for you. HTH, Jason On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 22:18:15 +0000, Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote: >I have a production server in site A, and a contingency server at site B >some miles away. Each night I copy an archive of the production server >to site B and restore it. > >Using onarchive/ondatartr, the database server at site B is in "Fast >Recovery" mode at the end of the restore. I leave it like this, because >it retains the flexibility to (a) bring it online if it's needed or (b) >copy subsequent log back-ups to site B use ondatartr to apply these, >thus bring the database server up-to-date. > >I believe that you can't to this with ontape; the archive restore and >log roll-forward must be done in the same operation. > >Am I right? It makes a difference because the database server is so >large that it takes over an hour to restore. > >Thanks > >Neil Truby >Chase Manhattan Bank >Bournemouth, UK >neil.truby@chase.com