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
Online Database Synchronization
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Partial Database Synchronization Issues
on the primary system. You must change this to point to your alternate key file on your
backup system. Use a FUP ALTER command to alter the file label manually. For
example:
FUP ALTER $DATA.TEST.PART0100,
ALTFILE ( 0, \BACKUP.$DATA.TEST.ALTF0100 )
Entry-sequenced and Unstructured Files
Currently there is no reliable mechanism to synchronize these file types online. Entry-
sequenced and unstructured files should be synchronized offline.
Enscribe Files With Partitions
Key-sequenced Files
First create a non-audited duplicate file on the primary system. Note that you must
create the entire file with all partitions. Then, you only need to load the partition that
you need. For example, suppose the file has two partitions: $DATA1.TEST.PART0100
(primary) and $DATA2.TEST.PART0100 (secondary). Issue the following command:
FUP CREATE $DATA1.TEMP.PART0100,
LIKE $DATA1.TEST.PART0100, NO AUDIT
That command creates the two files $DATA1.TEMP.PART0100 (primary partition) and
$DATA2.TEMP.PART0100 (secondary partition).
To load the primary partition only, issue the following command:
FUP LOAD $DATA1.TEST.PART0100, $DATA1.TEMP.PART0100,
PARTONLY,SHARE
To load the secondary partition only, issue the following command:
FUP LOAD $DATA2.TEST.PART0100, $DATA2.TEMP.PART0100,
PARTONLY,SHARE
When the load operations are finished, use BACKUP and RESTORE (or FUP DUP)
with the PARTONLY option to copy the partition you need to the backup system.
Relative Files
First create a non-audited duplicate file on the primary system. Note that you must
create the entire file with all its partitions. Unlike key-sequenced files, you must load
the entire file. For example, assume the file has two partitions: $DATA1.TEST.
PART0100 (primary) and $DATA2.TEST.PART0100 (secondary). Issue the following
command:
FUP CREATE $DATA1.TEMP.PART0100,
LIKE $DATA1.TEST.PART0100, NO AUDIT
That command creates the two files $DATA1.TEMP.PART0100 (primary partition) and
$DATA2.TEMP.PART0100 (secondary partition)