On Jul 25, 2012, at 7:25 AM, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: > Chris wrote on 07/25/2012 09:04:49 AM: > >> Is it possible to restore a zone file from its associated journal file? > > No. The journal file only records updates to the zone. At best you would > only recover the changes since last commit to the zone file. > >> The docs seem to indicate that a restart of bind will sync the two >> files, but in practice I get such as this: > > It doesn't sync the files to make two equal copies. It applies all of the > outstanding transactions in the journal file to the zone file and then > empties the journal.
I don't believe that is entirely correct. The journal file needs to be retained to support ixfrs. My understanding is that it will be automatically trimmed to max-journal-size, if that option is set. Chris Buxton BlueCat Networks _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
