I thought that this was the exact reason to setup different volumes, just to protect your data so that a hardware failure wouldn't wipe you out. If you have a separate volume for your databases and you loose ldev 1, can't you just re-create/re-build/restore ldev 1 or do you still loose that other volume when ldev 1 goes away? Kevin "I thought that I knew how it worked!?!" Newman > -----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 >