RE: backing up archives but ignoring logs

>Is it possible to use ontape to just backup archives and never use it to >backup logical logs and then restore? In other words, I'm not worried Yes. We have a client who Archives daily and discards logs to /dev/null. >about keeping track of the latest stuff - its okay to lose a couple >hours work. So, can I just periodically do a "ontape -s -L 0" (maybe do >a levels 1 and 2 in between) to disk files and restore from those disk >files if needed? >I guess the easiest way to do this would be to create the databases with >no logging right? What problems might that cause? Logging normally is for the application - because you want transactions. If you restore how would your users know what has been done and what has not?