Re: behaviour of ontape

Hi, yes, correct. Whenever ontape restore requires a tape with a specific logical log backed up, you give it the tape where this logical log backup begins. (It is possible, that a logical log backup begins on one tape, but then continues on the next tape because the tape became full before the backup of the log file could be completed.) ontape and IDS server will figure out themselves which log records need to be applied and do so. It will then ask for the next tape to continue. You don't need to think too much about this. The only things you need to do is to know, which logical logs got backed up to which tape, and provide the tapes accordingly. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management Informix URLs list: http://home.arcor.de/mfu1/informix/urls.html Informix in the news: http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=193004835 IBM Information On Demand Global Conference October 15-20, 2006, Anaheim, California see http://www.ibm.com/events/informationondemand informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 16.10.2006 15:49:19: > TBP (The Big Potato) wrote: > > Any clearer?? > > I think so, when ontape -r asks for logical log 622, it's OK to give it > a file/tape containing logs from 620 to at least 622. So it's capable of > finding the correct starting point itself. Wherever it may be in 622, > cause it's marked by the "archive checkpoint" in the logical log too, > correct? > > I was not sure of this and thought I had to provide a tape which starts > exactly at the point where archive point was taken. > > Thanks a bunch, > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list