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Table Of Contents
- Avid iNEWS Administration Guide
- Contents
- Using This Guide
- 1 - Introduction
- 2 - Connect Services
- 3 - Database Security
- 4 - Database Management
- 5 - Backing Up the iNEWS System
- 6 - Disconnects
- 7 - Troubleshooting
- A - Command References
- Programs Invoked by iNEWS
- Commands Used by Avid Personnel Only
- Linux Commands Used in iNEWS
- Console Control Commands
- Console Server Commands
- broadcast
- configure
- connect
- ctraits
- dbclean
- dbclose
- dbdev
- dbdump
- dbfree
- dblines
- dboriginal
- dbpurge (Superuser conditional)
- dbrestore
- dbserver
- dbsort
- dbtraits
- dbvisit
- dictionary
- diskclear (Superuser only)
- diskcopy
- doc
- ed
- enter
- force (Superuser only)
- grpcheck
- gtraits (Superuser only)
- help
- hogs
- idiff
- list
- list B
- list C
- list c
- list d
- list g
- list p
- list q
- list s
- list sq
- list u
- logout
- makemontab
- makeshift (Super user only)
- maketab (Superuser only)
- msgclean
- offline
- online
- otod
- reconnect
- remove
- rename (Superuser only)
- reorder
- restart
- searchtape
- send
- shutdown
- sitedump (Superuser only)
- siterestore (Superuser only)
- startup
- status
- stop
- su
- unbusy
- utraits (Super user only)
- version
- wholockedit
- Job List Commands
- Dialog Commands
- B - System Files
- C - Standard Dictionaries
- Using Dictionaries to Define Messages and Commands
- Customizing Dictionaries
- Utility Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/messages)
- DBServer Program Messages
- Disconnect Program Messages
- Category and Keyword Check Program Messages
- Keyboard Check Program Messages
- Keyboard Check Program Messages for Macros
- Grpcheck Messages
- Wire Program Messages
- Mail Server Messages
- Validation (Action) Server
- Seek Server Messages
- Last Login Messages
- Print Server Messages
- dbtraits Messages
- Save Error (Workstation) Messages
- Queues Dictionary (/site/dict/queues)
- Words Dictionary (/site/dict/words)
- Keyboard Macros Dictionary (/site/dict/keymacros)
- Case-shifting Dictionary (/site/dict/shift)
- MCS Dictionary (/site/dict/mcs)
- Job List Command Dictionary (/site/dict/joblist)
- D Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/dmessages)
- S Messages Dictionary (/site/dict/smessages)
- D - Environment Variables
- E - Managing Traits at the Console
- F - The Line Editor, ed
- Index
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Using Group Security to Control System Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 4 Database Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Monitoring Free Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Understanding Database Storage Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Monitoring the Free List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Understanding How the System Copies Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Tracking Database Space over Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using the hogs Command to Obtain Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Using dbserver and dbfree to Obtain Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Increasing Database Space for Immediate Use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Maintaining the Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Checking the Database for Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Cleaning the Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Cleaning Your Database Offline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Chapter 5 Backing Up the iNEWS System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Tape Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Establishing Policies for Backup Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Backing up the iNEWS Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The dbdump Command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Backing up the Entire Database to Tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Tapeless Database Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Backing up Individual Queues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Notes on Backing up the Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Restoring Data to the iNEWS Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
The dbrestore Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Restoring a First-Level Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Listing Tape Contents and Backup Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Listing Contents of a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Listing Items Dumped on a Particular Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Listing the Date of Each Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Searching a Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The searchtape Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Searching a Tape for Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76