On 9/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, now it seems that I was a bit confused. The db_archive command (with no
> switches, run in the db environment folder) lists all transaction log files
> besides the last one. And this means that they are *not* involved in any
> transactions, right?

The man-page is very explicit:

<quote>The  db_archive utility writes the pathnames of log files that
are no longer in use (e.g., no longer involved in active
transactions), to the standard output, one pathname per line. These
log files should be written to backup media to provide for recovery in
the case of catastrophic failure (which also requires a snapshot of
the database files), but they may then be deleted from the system to
reclaim disk space. </quote>

I ususally do a regular "slapcat" and run backups of the resulting
ldif, so I can delete all files reported by db_archive without backups
of those transaction logs or database files.

-- 
CU,
   Patrick.

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