Using the Verify Journals Command

Use the Verify Journals command from the Operation menu to perform a verification of a specified transaction journal file. This operation verifies the physical integrity of the selected transaction journal file, performing a series of tests that verify the contents of records, including various cross-checks between adjacent records.

To verify your transaction journal file

1. Select the Verify Journals command from the Operation menu. The common File dialog (named the Select Journal(s) dialog) is then displayed.

2. Select one or more journal files that you want to verify from the appropriate location.

3. Click the Open button, to start the transaction journal file verification. Alternatively, click the Cancel button, to abandon the operation.

While the operation is running, a progress dialog is displayed that enables you to monitor the progress of the operation. You can abort the run, by clicking the Cancel button. At the end of the operation, the running display provides a completion report, highlighting the number of verification errors that were encountered.

The following message is displayed.

<<Verify journals complete>>

Details of the verification operation are written to the journal-file-name.scan file, located in the current logs directory in your default database directory. (See also "Using the Dump Journals Command", later in this chapter, for details about producing a formatted recovery log file for diagnostic purposes, if required.)