Using EELS

Restoring EELS database records

Archives created by eels_log_archive(1Meels) can be restored to existing EELS databases by using eels_log_restore(1Meels). If you do not have an existing EELS database to restore to, you can create one using eels_db_admin(1Meels).

WARNING: eels_log_restore does not regenerate unique event IDs for records it restores from archive. This means that if you do not purge records when you originally archive them, and then restore the archive back to the same database, duplicate records with the same UniqEventID will be created. Only restore archives to live databases if the records in the database were purged during the original archive.

Archive files are always appended with a ``.Z'' extension. Archive names can take one of two forms:

an ordinary filename as specified on the command line, for example:

eels_subset.Z
a filename appended with a datestamp, for example:

eels_subs.02011999_08:29:37BST.Z