Re: DB recovery using ontape
I did say "No" to that but I still didn't get the update. Do I need to
do something else ?
Kenji
Mark D. Stock wrote:
> Kenji Hino wrote:
> >
> > I am new to the utility "ontape". I hope somebody can explain to me
>
> > what's going on.
> > To get familiar with the tool, I created a dataspace and put data in
>
> > it
> > and created a level-0 archive using "ontape -s". Then, I updated one
>
> > of
> > the record and created a logical log archive using "ontape -a". For
> > the
> > testing purpose, I used UNIX files (not devices) to specify the
> > destination for both system and logincal archive tape devices.
> > When I try to do full recovery using those two files, I get the
> system
> > archive recovered fine but I can't get the logical log to
> rollforward
> > which means that I can't get any update after I created the system
> > archive. Does anybody know what I am doing wrong ? During the
> > recovery,
>
> During the restore it asks if you want to backup the current logs. You
>
> MUST say NO. Otherwise you will overwrite your previous backup, and
> have no logs to restore.
>
> Hope that helps,
> --
> Mark.
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