Don't ya hate replying to your own questions?

I've found it.  www.rst-consult.com/database/sapdb/dbmcli_us_html.html
is a dbmcli howto.  I found that a backup of the log would clear it and
unblock the database.

The short version (for any other newbies out there)
add two 'mediums' for data and log backup with
medium_put medium1 /tmp/databak FILE DATA 0 8 YES
and
medium_put medium2 /tmp/logbak FILE LOG 0 8 YES

The names of the files don't matter: the ones above were just the one's
I chose for testing.

The do a data backup, then a log backup and voila!

Hope this saves someone else a bit of time.

Alan Graham

On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 20:47, Alan Graham wrote:
> <SAPdb newbie ON>
> 
> I'm trying to load lots of data into a SAPdb instance.  I've tried a
> number of times, and there have been minor data integrity problems with
> each load so far.  Unfortunately, I forgot to trap each failure and end
> the script gracefullt (I'm assuming I should have put the attempt into a
> try-except and did a sql.rollback if it failed?)
> 
> The situation now is that the log area is full with these previous
> attempts.  I can't find a way to dump the log contents.  I just want
> them gone.  I've tried everything I can think of in webdbm, with no
> luck.  Trying to configure the log mode just gives an error "Log Mode
> Configuration not possible".  That's with the database online, offline,
> or admin.
> 
> I assume that there's a command in dbmcli that I can run.
> 
> Can anyone enlighten me as to what it is?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Alan Graham
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