Re: Why should I archive now?

On the contrary, this is SOP and in TFM. You don NOT need to actually run to tape, however. Using ONMONITOR, set the Archive Device to /dev/null. Use ONTAPE to do a level 0 archive. Using ONMONITOR, reset your archive device to the original value. -d At 11:00 AM 9/18/97 -0700, Dianne Pendleton wrote: }You said you used it in the same dbspace and it worked. Maybe if you had wanted }to use it somewhere else, like in another database instance, it might not have }worked. I don't know - just guessing... } }Dianne } }______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ }Subject: Why should I archive now? }Author: Jacob Salomon <jake@apparel.net> at INTERNET }Date: 9/18/97 2:42 PM } } }Hi Family, } }this is from the department of possible brain damage. } }I am building a new ODS envrionment 7.13.UC1. I realized that when I }created dbspace number 5 (named garpac) I had neglected to use the full }length of the raw device. Rather than add a chunk to the dbspace to fill }out the device, I decided to drop the dbspace and recreate it at its }full length. } }In onmonitor, I went into DBSpace/Drop and dropped "garpac", as I've }many times in the past. I got this pair of messages: } }DBspace/BLOBspace successfully dropped. }** WARNING ** A level 0 archive will need to be done before any chunks }from DBspace garpac can be reused (see OnLine Administrator's manual). } }Huh? What kind of requirement is that? If I were to perform an archive }now, would it save the pages from the dbspace that no longer exists? It }would be closer to making sense if it required the level-0 archive }*before* I drop a dbspace. And even that would be dumb; after all, we }can drop only an empty dbspace and there would be no point in archiving }that! } }I tried to recreate the same-named dbspace over the disk space of the }dropped area. It not only worked, it was restored as dbspace # 5. So }the whole message seems to have been a red herring (which I dislike even }more than schmalz herring! ;-). } }Obviously I have no problem here; I'm just asking if anyone can make }sense out of the bogus requirement. } }Thanks. }-- } -- Jake (In pursuit of undomesticated aquatic avians) }+---------------------------------------------------------------+ }|Insofar as manifestations of functional deficiencies are agreed| }|by any and all concerned parties to be imperceivable, and are | }|so stipulated, it is incumbent upon said heretofore mentioned | }|parties to exercise the deferment of otherwise pertinent | }|maintenance procedures. | }+------------------- A Legal Minded Engineer (hardyharhar.com) -+ } }