Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-26 Thread Chris Nighswonger
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > The slaves should have a recent copy of the zone. Just axfr it and > use it as the master file. Any untransferred changes will be applied > from the journal when named starts. > Thanks to everyone who replied. I've learned quite a bit abou

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Chris Thompson writes: > On Jul 25 2012, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: > > >Chris Buxton wrote on 07/25/2012 12:07:22 PM: > > > >> > 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

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread Chris Thompson
On Jul 25 2012, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: Chris Buxton wrote on 07/25/2012 12:07:22 PM: > 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 entirel

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread WBrown
Chris Buxton wrote on 07/25/2012 12:07:22 PM: > > 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

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread Evan Hunt
> The problem here is that a large portion of the zone file was > "accidentally" deleted. If you have a backup of the zone file from not too long ago (maybe a copy on a slave server?), then that plus the journal file could be enough to get all the data back. The journal will usually contain recor

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread Chris Buxton
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

Re: Journal File Question

2012-07-25 Thread WBrown
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