RE: Skip Writing to Journal Receiver When Updating a Journaled File

> From: JMBauman@wardtrucking.com
>
> Anyone have any idea how to avoid writing to a journal receiver while
> updating a journaled file.  I would like to make some mass deletes to a
> file during the work day but we must keep journaling active and the last
> time I tried this,  the journal receiver filled up causing me a mass
> headache.  Any help would be appreciated

The point of a journal is to record all activity.

What you really want to do is replace the file.  Logically what you are
doing with a mass delete is replacing the old version of the file with a new
version that has significantly fewer records.  So, you may want to copy the
file to a work file, delete the selected records, then copy the file back
into the journaled file.  Your journal will show an entry reflecting the
copy, rather than entries for all the deletes.

However, once you've done something like that, you have lost any capability
of using the journal to rebuild the file in case of catastrophe.  If you are
using the journal for backup/recovery purposes as opposed to auditing, then
the copy will negatively impact your security coverage.

Of course, if you are using the journal for auditing, a copy member is a bad
thing to do because you lose all visibility into the actual changes, but
that's a different issue.  You won't necessarily lose your data, but you
will lose audit control.

Joe