Re: Turn on logging without archive?

Bryan Tonnet (wgtonb@sydsun.itsyd.bhp.com.au) wrote: : Knowing that the procedure was to create an archive first, I duly did same : and then started the logging....but I got to wondering, during the hour of : the archive, whether there is a simply change I could make to the system : catalogues to short circuit the process. What I've done on several occasions is to change the TAPEDEV parameter in the tbconfig file to "/dev/null". That way, the archive goes much faster ;-). Of course, you must not forget to change it back to whatever device you are using for actual backups, because I think there's no way to restore from /dev/null :-))) HTH, Richard -- +----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3413 | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | | 81366 Munich, Germany | | +----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+