It is possible to log to tape if you can dedicate a drive for that purpose.
At a site where I used to work we logged to an old 7978 tape drive that we
did not use for anything else.

-----Original Message-----
From:   Gary Nolan [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, November 08, 1999 8:53 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Image log files

This is the kind of mess we already got into. We have our logfiles on ldev
1
and the data bases split among the other 3 drives. We have only a small 947
with 2 1gig and 2 2gig drives and no private volumes. When we lost ldev 1
the logfiles were clobbered and the data bases are on the other drives
cannot be recovered when you have no ldev1 (catch 22). Paranoid me having
been burnt once by this does not intend to burnt again.
While I have implemented the copying to PC procedure for now, I  am still
not happy with it and hope somebody will let us spend the $$ on a raid
solution.
If anybody has a way to allow me to open the logfile and pull records from
it as they are  written to it  I would be interested to hear how to do
this.

Gary Nolan

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 11:44 AM
Subject: Re:Image log files


> Gary Nolan sez:
>
> Logging to disc is great as long as you don't lose ldev 1 (as we
> found out the hard way).
>
> Why limit your log file to LDEV 1? If you limit the log file to
> a spindle that does not contain your databases, you should be
> protected in the event a disk fails - either you lose the
> database, or you lose the log file, but not both.
>
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