Re: Informix log files?

}From: naomi@anasazi.com (Naomi Walker) }Message-Id: <9502091518.AA02080@ds9.anasazi.com> }Subject: Re: Informix log files? } }> }> Are the log files accessible from the os? Or can these be dumped to an ascii }> file? }You could log to disk, making the files accessible. Or, you could run }tblog on the logfiles, and do something with the output. }> Hi Naomi, I'm curious to know how you might go about rolling forward from these logs after getting them onto the fallback machine? It was my understanding that you could only do this when you were doing a restore from an archive. If there is a way to do this I would like to know about it. }If you are looking for a fallback machine, this is what the hot site backup }was designed to do. I don't think it available yet, but it's pretty close. } I hadn't heard of this - have you any more information? }From my understanding, the fallback machine would have a read-only copy of }the database, and be brought up to date by transferring the logs, and }applying them, much like in a recovery situation. Other than some security }breaches, it sounds like a good idea. } I agree. } } }-- } Naomi Walker (aka N7FSA) | naomi@anasazi.com } | Phoenix, Arizona } ---------------------------------------------------------------------- } It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things. } -- Peter K. Botcherby e-mail : p.botcherby@umds.ac.uk Paediatric Research Unit Guys Hospital, London, UK.