database recovery

[Matthias Andree]

Gyepi SAM <gyepi at praxis-sw.com> writes:

> Apologies for responding so late. As David mentioned in another email,
> I just moved and was offline for some time.
>
> db_recover *is* the tool for the job. There are two options to try.
>
> 1. If you know the date/time of the crash, use the -t option. Man
> db_recover for the syntax, but the general idea is to recover any data
> that was flushed before the crash.
>
> 2. If the first option does not work, use the -c option, which
> performs a catastrophic recovery.  Essentially, it will do the best it
> can, but provides no guarantees about data integrity.  Use it only if
> you are truly desperate.

Should we recommend to run db_archive once in a while, for db_recover -c?

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Matthias Andree