Re: Logical Logs Archiving -Reply

Peter Tashkoff (TASHKOP@kiwi.co.nz) wrote: : I have noticed in that later versions that following an : outage of Online, you need to do an initial backup of : logs to a real file before Online will allow a backup : to /dev/null. I have presumed this to be a feature.(?). : Also although it has been stated in this group (and : also was my understanding) that ontape -c (or a) : does not need to run if logging is to /dev/null, we : need to do it here, or the logs will fill. : Once again I have presumed that this is either a : change in this version or both archive and logging : tape devices need to be set to /dev/null for the : automatic freeing of the logs to occur. : -- : -- : Peter Tashkoff One cheesy trick we do is to create a link to /dev/null and just archive to that on our development boxes. -Lin