RE: Informix logfiles truncating

Informix treats /dev/null specially. You shouldn't need to run ontape to free logs that are backed up to /dev/null > -----Original Message----- > From: Valeriy Tsuryk [SMTP:valery@quikcat.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 7:55 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Informix logfiles truncating > > Sorry for one more question. > As far as I can understand even if I will have LTAPEDEV as /dev/null I > should schedule ontape -.... > or something else in order to wipe out log dbspace? > > > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:8kk35u$hmk$1@news.xmission.com... > > > > Set your LTAPEDEV to /dev/null? > > > > From: "Valeriy Tsuryk" <valery@quikcat.com> > > > > > >We developing distributed client-server application and we using > > > > > >Informix Dynamic Server Workgroup Edition 7.3... on UnixWare 7.1.1. > > > > > >Our database uses transaction logging. > > > > > >Our database has couple static tables with customers information > > > > > >and several tables with dynamic data. Amount of static data is not > > > > > >big and data can be backuped for example once per week or when > > > > > >operator will decide to do it. Dynamic data should not be backuped > > > > > >anyway. > > > > > >But in our system dynamic data changes every several minutes. It > > > > > >cause a fast growing of logfiles, and every two - three days > > > > > >Informix stops and waits while we backup logfiles. While Informix > > > > > >waiting for backup users of our system can't work. Increasing of > > > > > >logfiles size can only postpone this situation. > > > > > >We want to give our customers possibility to evaluate our software. > > > > > >During this evaluation we do not suppose to backup any data and we > > > > > >do not want to worry about logfiles at all. We want to have some > > > > > >'black box' which can be started once and work without any service > > > > > >and operator's actions. We understand and accept that in case if > > > > > >something will happened with database it will be impossible to > > > > > >restore data. > > > > > >How can we tune Informix Server to truncate / reuse / automatically > > > > > >backup logfiles ? > > > > > >Are there another solutions to avoid problem with continuous logfiles > > >backup > > >? > > > > > > > > > > > >Thanks for help! > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > >