RE: Is there any way to rebackup a logical log that has been marked as backed up?
Well it normally takes a couple or three days for our logical logs to wrap and we L 0 nightly, the problem was the multiple logs that get created used and advanced during the backup process are the ones missing, because log_full.sh was being called repeatedly very rapidly. Signature > Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:15:14 +0000 > From: marco@4glworks.com > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Is there any way to rebackup a logical log that has been marked as backed up? > > > > On 15/03/12 13:57, Todd Roy wrote: > > > > We've been backing up logical logs to disk for some months using a modified > > version of Art Kagel's log_full.sh > > command. Its been going well, but I noticed that sometimes, if logical logs > > get marked as complete fast enough, > > some of the logs seem to drop into the bit bucket rather than go to disk. This > > may be due to my compressing > > the logical log in the script and somehow multiple copies of log_full.sh > > running simultaneously. I've fixed the > > problem by adding a lock file, but I appear to have missing backups. Any way > > to reback these up? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Todd > > > > Assuming that the logs haven't wrapped - the only way to achieve this is for > advanced support to dial in and remove the backed up flag from the logs you > are missing (Can be done, I have done it a few times). > I would suspect though that, unless you can provide a really robust business > need, tech support will just suggest that taking a whole L 0 will eliminate > the need to rearchive the missing logs. > > -- > Ciao, > Marco > ______________________________________________________________________________ > Marco Greco /UK /IBM Standard disclaimers apply! > > Structured Query Scripting Language http://www.4glworks.com/sqsl.htm > 4glworks http://www.4glworks.com > Informix on Linux http://www.4glworks.com/ifmxlinux.htm > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list