June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
688 pages
19h 18m
English
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db_archive
db_archive [-alsVv] [-h home]
Description
The db_archive utility writes the pathnames of log files that are no longer in use (for example, no longer involved in active transactions), to the standard output, one pathname per line. These log files should be written to backup media to provide for recovery in the case of catastrophic failure (which also requires a snapshot of the database files), but they may then be deleted from the system to reclaim disk space.
The options are as follows:
-a Write all pathnames as absolute pathnames, instead of relative to the database home directories.
-h Specify a home directory for the database environment; by default, the current working directory is used.
-l Write out the pathnames of all of ...