Werth, Dave wrote:
>Because we don't have enough room to keep all of the archive logs on-line
>I've set up a cron job that checks every 10 minutes for file system space
>where the archive logs are created and when it reaches a certain level it
>starts a savegroup that back's up then deletes the archive logs.

I used to compress the archive logs and keep them for a little while. We
also did a cold backup of the database every night.

I belive only doing a backup and then delete archive logs is foolhardy. If
one tape goes bad, life will be VERY miserable. Disk IS cheap and it does
not cost much to add a few disks to a server to store the archive logs
until they are spread on so many tapes that there is no danger anymore.


greetings,

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