Re: Restoring archive without logical logs

gosport <gosport@pobox.oleane.net> wrote: >Does anyone know how to restore a level 0 archive without the logical >logs and without patching the rootdbs ??? >We had this problem on our HP9000 K200 running DSA 7.12, and we tortured >the engineer from Informix until he patched the rootdbs so that we could >go on-line without restoring the logical logs (we hadn't saved'em all >the way). >Note that there is no mention about the 'compulsarity' of continuously >saving the logical logs in the DSA administrator guide... During the restore process, you will receive a prompt that asks if you have any logical logs to roll forward...simply answer no and your system should come up in quiescent mode. I don't understand what you mean by having to get an Informix engineer to 'patch' the rootdbs. Maybe you mean that you only had some of the logical logs to apply, but not all, or you are trying to do some type of timestamp restore..that's in 7.2. HTH -- Melvin Mariney, Informix DBA e-mail: melvin.mariney2@bridge.bellsouth.com