#include <db.h>

int
log_archive(DB_ENV *env, char *(*listp)[],
    u_int32_t flags, void *(*db_malloc)(size_t));

Description

The log_archive function creates a NULL-terminated array of log or database file names and copies a pointer to them into the user-specified memory location listp.

By default, log_archive returns the names of all of the log files that are no longer in use (e.g., no longer involved in active transactions), and that may safely be archived for catastrophic recovery and then removed from the system. If there were no file names to return, the memory location referenced by listp will be set to NULL.

Arrays of log file names are created in allocated memory. If db_malloc is non-NULL, it is called to allocate the memory, otherwise, the library function malloc(3) is used. The function db_malloc must match the calling conventions of the malloc(3) library routine. Regardless, the caller is responsible for deallocating the returned memory. To deallocate returned memory, free the returned memory reference, references inside the returned memory do not need to be individually freed.

The flags value must be set to 0 or by bitwise inclusively OR'ing together one or more of the following values.

DB_ARCH_ABS

All pathnames are returned as absolute pathnames, instead of relative to the database home directory.

DB_ARCH_DATA

Return the database files that need to be archived in order to recover the database from catastrophic failure. If any of the database files have not been accessed during the lifetime of the current log files, log_archive will not include them in this list. It is also possible that some of the files referenced in the log have since been deleted from the system.

DB_ARCH_LOG

Return all the log file names regardless of whether or not they are in use.

The DB_ARCH_DATA and DB_ARCH_LOG flags are mutually exclusive.

See the db_archive manual page for more information on database archival procedures.

The log_archive function is the underlying function used by the db_archive utility. See the db_archive utility source code for an example of using log_archive in a IEEE/ANSI Std 1003.1 (POSIX) environment.

The log_archive function returns a non-zero error value on failure and 0 on success.

Bugs

In a threaded application (i.e., one where the environment was created with the DB_THREAD flag specified), calling log_archive with the DB_ARCH_DATA flag will fail, returning EINVAL. To work around this problem, re-open the log explicitly without specifying DB_THREAD. This restriction is expected to be removed in a future version of Berkeley DB.

Errors

The log_archive function may fail and return a non-zero error for the following conditions:

EINVAL

An invalid flag value or parameter was specified.

The log was corrupted.

The log_archive function may fail and return a non-zero error for errors specified for other Berkeley DB and C library or system functions. If a catastrophic error has occurred, the log_archive function may fail and return DB_RUNRECOVERY, in which case all subsequent Berkeley DB calls will fail in the same way.

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