[Info-ingres] Recover Database

[Adrian Williamson]

Ah yes, the dreaded database identifier and binary editing of database
(CNF?) files....keep you all night long that will.


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<info-ingres-bounces at lists.planetingres.org> On Behalf Of Karl Schendel
Sent: 25 January 2022 14:50
To: Ingres and related product discussion forum
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Subject: Re: [Info-ingres] Recover Database


> On Jan 25, 2022, at 9:01 AM, Rich Ford <richford990 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to save a checkpoint file in a backup directory then 
> destroy the database, create the database and then use this checkpoint
file to recover the database the state prior to the destroy?
> 

Possible, yes.  It's not the simplest thing in the world to get right, and
you can't just rollforwarddb the checkpoint.  I don't advise it unless there
is no other way to recover, and then I'd want to get Tech Support involved.

Karl

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