RDF System Management Manual
Table Of Contents
- RDF System Management Manual
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introducing RDF
- RDF Subsystem Overview
- RDF Processes
- RDF Operations
- Reciprocal and Chain Replication
- Available Types of Replication to Multiple Backup Systems
- Triple Contingency
- Loopback Configuration (Single System)
- Online Product Initialization
- Online Database Synchronization
- Online Dumps
- Subvolume- and File-Level Replication
- Shared Access DDL Operations
- EMS Support
- SMF Support
- RTD Warning Thresholds
- Process-Lockstep Operation
- Support for Network Transactions
- RDF and NonStop SQL/MX
- Zero Lost Transactions (ZLT)
- Monitoring RDF Entities With ASAP
- 2 Preparing the RDF Environment
- 3 Installing and Configuring RDF
- 4 Operating and Monitoring RDF
- 5 Managing RDF
- Recovering From File System Errors
- Handling Disk Space Problems
- Responding to Operational Failures
- Stopping RDF
- Restarting RDF
- Carrying Out a Planned Switchover
- Takeover Operations
- Reading the Backup Database
- Access to Backup Databases in a Consistent State
- RDF and NonStop SQL/MP DDL Operations
- RDF and NonStop SQL/MX Operations
- Backing Up Image Trail Files
- Making Online Dumps With Updaters Running
- Doing FUP RELOAD Operations With Updaters Running
- Exception File Optimization
- Switching Disks on Updater UPDATEVOLUMES
- 6 Maintaining the Databases
- 7 Online Database Synchronization
- 8 Entering RDFCOM Commands
- 9 Entering RDFSCAN Commands
- 10 Triple Contingency
- 11 Subvolume- and File-Level Replication
- 12 Auxiliary Audit Trails
- 13 Network Transactions
- Configuration Changes
- RDF Network Control Files
- Normal RDF Processing Within a Network Environment
- RDF Takeovers Within a Network Environment
- Takeover Phase 1 – Local Undo
- Takeover Phase 2 – File Undo
- Takeover Phase 3 – Network Undo
- Takeover Phase 3 Performance
- Communication Failures During Phase 3 Takeover Processing
- Takeover Delays and Purger Restarts
- Takeover Restartability
- Takeover and File Recovery
- The Effects of Undoing Network Transactions
- Takeover and the RETAINCOUNT Value
- Network Configurations and Shared Access NonStop SQL/MP DDL Operations
- Network Validation and Considerations
- RDF Re-Initialization in a Network Environment
- RDF Networks and ABORT or STOP RDF Operations
- RDF Networks and Stop-Update-to-Time Operations
- Sample Configurations
- RDFCOM STATUS Display
- 14 Process-Lockstep Operation
- Starting a Lockstep Operation
- The DoLockstep Procedure
- The Lockstep Transaction
- RDF Lockstep File
- Multiple Concurrent Lockstep Operations
- The Lockstep Gateway Process
- Disabling Lockstep
- Reenabling Lockstep
- Lockstep Performance Ramifications
- Lockstep and Auxiliary Audit Trails
- Lockstep and Network Transactions
- Lockstep Operation Event Messages
- 15 NonStop SQL/MX and RDF
- Including and Excluding SQL/MX Objects
- Obtaining ANSI Object Names From Updater Event Messages
- Creating NonStop SQL/MX Primary and Backup Databases from Scratch
- Creating a NonStop SQL/MX Backup Database From an Existing Primary Database
- Online Database Synchronization With NonStop SQL/MX Objects
- Offline Synchronization for a Single Partition
- Online Synchronization for a Single Partition
- Correcting Incorrect NonStop SQL/MX Name Mapping
- Consideration for Creating Backup Tables
- Restoring to a Specific Location
- Comparing NonStop SQL/MX Tables
- 16 Zero Lost Transactions (ZLT)
- A RDF Command Summary
- B Additional Reference Information
- C Messages
- D Operational Limits
- E Using ASAP
- Index
What’s New in This Manual
HP NonStop RDF System Management Manual—524388-003
xv
New and Changed Information
•
Added File Recovery on the Primary System and File Recovery on the Backup
System.
•
Added STOP RDF, DRAIN Operations to “Stopping RDF From the Primary
System.”
•
Added Switching Disks on Updater UPDATEVOLUMES.
•
Section 7, Online Database Synchronization: Updated Enscribe Queue File Issues.
•
Section 8, Entering RDFCOM Commands:
•
Added the TRIGGER parameter to the ADD command (page 8-9).
•
Added the TRIGGER parameter to the ALTER command (page 8-14).
•
Added the TRIGGER parameter to the DELETE command (page 8-20).
•
Updated the list of keyword abbreviations for the HELP command (page 8-28).
•
Added the TRIGGER parameter to the INFO command (page 8-31).
•
Added the NOW clause to the INITTIME parameter of the INITIALIZE RDF
command (page 8-40).
•
Added the TRIGGER parameter to the RESET command (page 8-53).
•
Added the OWNER parameter to the SET RDF command (page 8-67).
•
Added the SET TRIGGER command (page 8-78).
•
Added the TRIGGER parameter to the SHOW command (page 8-85).
•
Added the DRAIN and REVERSE parameters to the STOP RDF command
(page 8-100).
•
Added the ! parameter to the TAKEOVER command (page 8-108).
•
Section 10, Triple Contingency:
•
Added the topic Using ZLT to Achieve Triple Contingency Protection for
Auxiliary Audit Trails.
•
Section 15, NonStop SQL/MX and RDF:
•
Added Including and Excluding SQL/MX Objects.
•
Added Obtaining ANSI Object Names From Updater Event Messages.
•
Section 16, Zero Lost Transactions (ZLT):
•
Added information about the TMF commit-hold capability (16-1, 16-5).
•
Added The Audit-Fixup Process.
•
Updated the Recovering the Primary System After an RDF ZLT Takeover topic.
•
Added ZLT and RDF Networks.