At 01:20 PM 10/14/2004 -0400, Johnson, Tracy wrote:
>I guess that messes up 2nd and 3rd party allegedly "true-online"
>backup products.  One problem I've been having is that since a
>log file's modify date doesn't change until it is stopped,
>restarted, or switched over, one might as well abort any
>currently users anyway, so any log files will get picked up on
>a @.@ "Partial" backup, because DBSTORE and "online"
>(working together) features won't do the trick.  Because
>even though a root file's modify date gets picked up on a
>Partial backup, the associated log file's isn't.

I believe that's why folks do a 'switchlog' before starting the backup...

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