Re: DB recovery using ontape
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,
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