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 1. Format of an AI extent archive record in the archive log file
Field Value Field position
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
database Name of the database 2
date Date of the backup in YYYYMMDD format 3
time Time of the backup in HHMMSS format 4
aibegin-date Date that after imaging was started for the database in YYYYMMDD format 5
aibegin-time Date that after imaging was started for the database in HHMMSS format 6
aiseq AI extent sequence number, with leading zeros (number of AI extents since last AIMAGE BEGIN) 7
extent-name Source name of the archived extent 8
target-extent-name The file name of archived extent 9