Re: Restoring archive without logical logs

hi, > Does anyone know how to restore a level 0 archive without the logical > logs and without patching the rootdbs ??? whth a restore from ontape, it will ask you if you have any logs to restore, and if you answer no, it should then bring you online. i just did this on my (now defunct) 5.01 server. i assumed that it works the same way in 7.X. this is a bit alarming to hear. i know, from experience, that with on-archive, if you restore a dbset that doesn't contain all of your dbspaces, (for example, the dbset that i restored contained the rootdbs, log dbspaces, and physical log space), then the logical logs are 0'd out, as the server cannot be in a consistent state only restoring some dbspaces. it must have logical logs in order to have all dbspaces consistent with each other. > 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 good, he should have done this for you regardless, it is your installation, and you know what you want to do with it. > Note that there is no mention about the 'compulsarity' of continuously > saving the logical logs in the DSA administrator guide... i've never seen anything either, but haven't directly looked. as i stated, i assumed that with ontape, you had a choice as to whether you apply logical logs or not. any informix input here? mickm