Enterprise Server Issue with journal-file

[James Rea]

> After next restart the server begins to work normal again,
> but has lost the journal-files,
> because the server had trashed it during first restart before.
> 
> Has anyone else watched such behavior?

I've seen the server have to be restarted twice sometimes (I think the
OS hasn't released the files for some reason), but it doesn't lose the
journal files. It doesn't erase a journal file until the journal has
been processed and the updated database saved, so I don't see how the
scenario you mention could play out. If anything interrupted the process
before it was complete the journal file would not be erased, because
that is the very last thing it does. Are you sure the journal files
weren't incorporated into the server databases?

By the way, on our production server we use Keep-It-Up-X which restarts
the server automatically if necessary. If a double restart is necessary
this software takes care of that automatically.

Jim Rea
President, ProVUE Development

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