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Protecting Your Data : After-imaging : AI File Management utility : Archive log file : Archive record
 
Archive record
Each time an after-image extent is archived, an archive record is written to the archival log. The archival record describes the archival itself and the after-image file being archived An archive line is formatted as follows:
Record type,database,date,time,aibegin-date,aibegin-time,aiseq,
         extent-name,target-extent-name
The table below describes each field of an AI extent archive record.
Table 30. Format of an AI extent archive record in the archive log file
Field
Value
Current field position
Prior field position1
Record type
AI extent archive record values are:
*0001 — Automated extent archival
*0003 — Manual extent archival
*0004 — Manual extent archival to a NULL device
1
1
database
Name of the database
2
2
date
Date of the backup in YYYYMMDD format
3
3
time
Time of the backup in HHMMSS format
4
4
aibegin-date
Date that after imaging was started for the database in YYYYMMDD format
5
5
aibegin-time
Date that after imaging was started for the database in HHMMSS format
6
6
buseq
Backup sequence number of the backup
Removed
7
aiseq
AI extent sequence number, with leading zeros (number of AI extents since last AIMAGE BEGIN)
7
8
extent-name
Source name of the archived extent
8
9
target-directory
The directory where the extent is archived
Removed
10
target-extent-name
The file name of archived extent
9
11
1 Field record position for an AI extent archive record prior to OpenEdge Release 10.1C02.