Hi Rick,
I'll take a stab at some of your questions -
Your method would work IF you're willing to remove all of the backups after your point
in time (assuming rollforward). For some, that's too much to lose.
If expiration, migration, etc... have not run - life is dandy. The Admin Guide may
have other suggestions to verify this, but I don't have mine handy.
The expiration and related processes add a significant twist to this. Now, you will
absolutely want to follow the recommendations in the Admin Guide. I believe it's
under "restoring the server to a point in time" or something like that. It's near the
back of the guide.
The golden key to all of this is the Volhist file from *before* the restore db.
With that, you'll know exactly what volumes to audit and bring the server backup up to
date.
I hope that answers some of your questions, and maybe provides a pointer for more
reading.
Glen Smith
"Richard L. Rhodes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc:
Subject: Re: Is there a way to delete all files that were backed up
lastnight for certain clients
On 19 Sep 2001, at 10:35, David Longo wrote:
> That question has come up here about viruses. I don't think there is an
> easy way. Maybe someone has some experience/ideas.
Lets suppose that instead of just a few clients, you wanted to do
this for all clients - or at least be willing to accept loosing all
backups from the previous night . . . . .
Could you restore the db to the previous backup, and if in
rollforware mode, roll forward to before the backups started?
I've often wondered what would happen in this situation because
what's on tape wouldn't match what is in the db. This would be
especially true if migration, expiration, and reclamation have run.
This situation is always true if your db backups are done in normal
mode (NOT using roll-forward). In this case, any db restore will
always leave the db out of sync with what's on tape.
I've never had a good explanation of this situation, and the
documentation is completely silent.
Rick
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