Naming Convention for Clean Logs

All clean logs must be created with meaningful names to reduce the chance of errors occurring when recovering data.

tlmenu defaults to the following naming convention for clean log files:

CLOGdate-nn

where:

date is the current date in the format yymmdd.

nn is a sequence number, to allow more than one clean log per day. (If there are more than 99 clean logs for any one day then the logs will start to use a three-digit sequence number, nnn, up to 999.)

For example, CLOG190511-01 is the first clean log used on 11 May 2019.

CLOG is the default clean log prefix. Refer to the topic Configuration Options.

This standard format for clean log names prevents any ambiguity in identifying a clean log and enables the recovery operation to be automated easily. The reverse date format enables clean log operations logged in the database's event logs to be sorted in date order.