Restore request without last logical log

Hi all, I have a system down, IBM/informix through a third party support contract has asked me to do a restore but omitting the last logical log. It seems the last log backed up is somehow corrupt according to IBM techie >>restore from archive . this is the best option - the customer could >>restore to the logs prior to the last log used (prior to , but not >>including 620308 ) if they have specific logs on their tape. - thereby >>avoiding rolling into the same problem again during recovery. This would >>leave the system in a logically consistent state I am in the process of restoring the lvl 0 backup tape from the night before but when it comes to running ontape -l from the logical log backup tape there is no option to specify up to which log i wish to restore - can someone inform me of the correct procedure to do this. unfortunatly I am finding it difficult to get hold of the people I have the support contract with grrrrr

dd the log tape out to disk, and use count to truncate the last log (you'll have to make a guess of this). Point your TAPEDEV to this copied file and the log restore will just terminate neatly when it hit ends of file. "Rob Smith" <robert.smith@huntleigh-healthcare.com> wrote in message news:44915578.0410120954.55e90113@posting.google.com... > Hi all, > > I have a system down, IBM/informix through a third party support > contract has asked me to do a restore but omitting the last logical > log. It seems the last log backed up is somehow corrupt according to > IBM techie > > >>restore from archive . this is the best option - the customer could > >>restore to the logs prior to the last log used (prior to , but not > >>including 620308 ) if they have specific logs on their tape. - > thereby > >>avoiding rolling into the same problem again during recovery. This > would > >>leave the system in a logically consistent state > > I am in the process of restoring the lvl 0 backup tape from the night > before > but when it comes to running ontape -l from the logical log backup > tape there is no option to specify up to which log i wish to restore - > can someone inform me of the correct procedure to do this. > > unfortunatly I am finding it difficult to get hold of the people I > have the support contract with grrrrr