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Status Already exists
Categories InterSystems IRIS
Created by Gary Holt
Created on Oct 3, 2022

Cache Journal Switch Schedule

Add the facility for journals to not only be switched on size but also on a schedule either every hour or half hour. This will allow the system to be restore and the journals replayed upto a fixed time, rather than taking incremental/differential backups.

  • ADMIN RESPONSE
    Jan 26, 2023

    Thank you for posting the idea. According to information from experts, this functionality already exists.

  • Admin
    Vadim Aniskin
    Nov 26, 2022

    Gary, thank you for posting the idea. According to information from Developer Community experts, this functionality already exists.

  • Sean O'Connor
    Oct 11, 2022

    There is already a task you can set up in TaskScheduler to perform this - it's SwitchJournal under %SYS