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Re: arch directory filled; restart ARCH process?

From: <Kip.Bryant_at_Vishay.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:15:50 -0700
Message-Id: <10556.111872@fatcity.com>


I've worked with Oracle on vms and unix and Oracle just waits until you make space and then resumes archiving. If you have no place to move them, you could compress them (have to uncompress them to do a recovery, however).

Kip

|Not sure what OS you are on, but with VMS the process just continues
|automatically without any restarts. You just end up with a trc file and
|mutiple entries in the alert log.

|Ernest Simard
|System Analyst
|Sonoma State Univ
|707-664-3091

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|To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
|Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 1:45 PM

|> Help. I have just started working with a database in archivelog mode. The
|> process that writes our archived logs to tape failed yesterday and
|> eventually the directory that holds the logs filled. The database did not
|> crash though! (I thought that's how it worked?) The alert log has entries
|> showing ARCH trying to write to the filled directory, and failing, but no
|db
|> crash. I have copied the archived files off for now and freed up space--is
|> it safe to just restart the ARCH process? Once the process is restarted
|will
|> it continue to write to the file that it was archiving to when it failed?
|Or
|> will it write to a new file? Am I missing something crucial here?
|> Thanks,
|> Sandy
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