Salvage logical-log files
Before the cold restore starts, the console prompts you to salvage the logical-log files on disk. To salvage the logical-log files, use a new tape. It saves log records that you did not back up and enables you to recover your database server data up to the point of the failure.
The following example shows a log salvage:
... Continue restore? (y/n) y Do you want to back up the logs? (y/n) y Please mount tape 1 on /dev/ltapedev and press Return to continue. Would you like to back up any of logs 31 - 32? (y/n) y Logical logs 31 - 32 may be backed up. Enter the id of the oldest log that you would like to backup? 31 Please label this tape as number 1 in the log tape sequence. This tape contains the following logical logs: 31-32 Log salvage is complete, continuing restore of archive. Restore a level 1 archive (y/N) y Ready for level 1 tape ...