Re: Logical logs are backed up but seen as not freed in onstat -l

On Sat, 07 Jun 1997 18:00:48 -0400, Boris Niyazov <ban5@columbia.edu> wrote: >I've just upgraded my Online 5.07 to 7.22 DS (Solaris 2.5.1 Sparc). >What I am noticing that while I am runing continious backup ontape -c, I >see that logical logs are backed up ok , but they appear as not freed in >the output of onstat -l . Their status remains U-B-- . They are not >freed when I interrupt continious backup or even restart the engine. I >didn't see such behavior in ver 5. I was told that I shouldn't worry, >they will be freed when they start to fill up. Is it how online 7 >behaves? I haven't found anything related to that in the manuals. > This is nothing to worry about. They changed the logical log behavior in the early 7.X release. The reason was supposedly to aid in the re-sync of data replication servers since the backed up logical logs are not truly gone until they are reused. Richard