ARCHIVE DATABASE ACCESS

By: Graham Ivey, Senior Staff Engineer, Sybase (UK) Ltd



ASE 12.5.4 has a new infrastructure that enables a non tape archive device to be represented as a normal database. The load of an archive database is much faster than the traditional load of a normal database due to the fact that Backup Server does not need to copy pages. The storage for an archive database is mainly the dump itself and only a minimal amount of traditional disk space is needed when ASE allocates and modifies pages as part of recovery. An archive database can be used for a variety of operations including object-level restore, database consistency checking and load sequence verification.

 







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