Re: Logical log backup - Why!?

On 4 Dec 1997 03:50:52 GMT, "Irwin Goldstein" <irwin@objectsoft.com> wrote: : :It really depends on your needs. If the risk of losing a day's worth of :data is acceptable, then setting the log tape device (LTAPEDEV) to :/dev/null is a reasonable option. If you do this, you don't even need to :run the continuous backup -- the engine seems to know that /dev/null means :the backup would only be thrown away and therefore frees each log as soon :as it is no longer needed for rolling back open transactions. I was under the impression that setting it to /dev/null actually wrote the output that would normally go to tape (/dev/rct or whatever) to /dev/null. Not that it would understand the string /dev/null to mean don't back it up. gburnore@netcom dot com or gburnore@netcom databasix com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- How you look depends on where you go. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary L. Burnore | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ DOH! | '۳'''''''ۺ''''''''''۳ | '۳ 3 4 1 4 2 '' 6 9 0 6 9 '۳ spamgard(tm): zamboni | Official Proof of Purchase =========================================================================== PGPprint: C63B CF4E 1B71 4D7E C6F8 AF4E 338D 5CB4 KeyID: 0x0F7EDBD9 (RSA) finger gburnore@netcom.com for public key ---------------------------------------------------------------------------