Re: How to continue log backups automatically?

In article <5opf6b$6s3@zax.whoville.leftbank.com>, Ofer Inbar <cos@zax.w hoville.leftbank.com> writes >curtis@pencom.com (Curtis Preston) writes: >>In article >><Pine.BSF.3.91.970617132753.4700C-100000@kilimanjaro.dallas.herald.net>, >>From Richard Stanford <richards@herald.net.REMOVE>, the following was >>written: > And at least one problem -- you can't run logging again >>without > changing the > tape. For that reason, something that ejects >>the current tape and > spawns continuous logging might be best, then >>your operators wouldn't > be overwriting log tapes. >> >>Problems like this one, and restarting logs after reboot are all why I >>do logs to disk. I have a script that does this automatically, just ask >>if you want it. > >Hold on - you mean to say that if a continuous log backup is left >running, it will just keep overwriting from the beginning of the tape >each time it has a log to back up? If that's true, what was the point >of including this feature in the first place? That doesn't make any >sense! > No! What they mean is a) you start continuous logging it starts writing at the start of the tape b) As eah logical log becomes full and everything in it has been commited it gets appended to the current contents of the tape. c) You then stop continuous logging d) you thenstart continuous logging it starts writing at the start of the tape OVERWRTING THE PREVIOUS CONTENTS.. > -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu > -- The Left Bank Operation -- lbo@leftbank.com http://www.leftbank.com/ > "Good literature is about Love and War." > "Junk fiction is about Sex and Violence." -- David Williams