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
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Index
Numbers
900, File code 2-8
A
Abbreviations 8-27, A-4
ADD command 8-9, A-2
ADD EXTRACTOR command 3-26, 3-30
ADD MONITOR command 3-30
ADD RECEIVER command 3-32, 3-33
ALTER command 8-14, A-2
ALTER command, FUP 3-8
Altering TMF configuration 3-14
ASAP, Using with RDF 1-34, E-1
Asterisk wildcard character 9-14
AT command 9-3, 9-17, A-16
ATINDEX parameter 8-20, 8-31, 8-56,
8-59, 8-74
Audit compression 3-2
Audit dumping, STATUS RDF
command 4-23
Audit trail file purging 2-6, 2-7
AUDITCOMPRESS file attribute 3-2
Auditing
RDF requirements 2-5
turning off via FUP 3-8
Auxiliary
audit trails 12-1
image trails 1-19
B
Backing up
altered database structures 6-4
files 2-7
image trail files 5-32
programs and files 3-9
Backup database
synchronizing with primary 3-4, 3-8,
6-1, 6-9, 6-10
Backup system
applications 3-9
backup files needed 2-7
configuration 2-1
files 3-9
NonStop SQL/MP catalogs
contents 3-4
NonStop SQL/MP objects on 3-3
program files 3-9
RDF requirements 2-1
recompiling programs 3-9
tasks 1-12
views 2-9
volume names 2-2
Backup System Crash 5-11
BACKUPSWAP parameter 8-67
BACKUPSYSTEM network attribute 13-4
BACKUPSYSTEM parameter 8-40
Bracket prompt (]) 4-1
C
Catalog changes
NonStop SQL/MP 6-5
ODBC 6-5
Catalogs, NonStop SQL/MP
backup system
contents 3-4
names 3-3
Command file
configuration B-4
OBEY 4-6
RDFCOM 4-6
Command syntax, RDFCOM 4-2
Commands
entering 4-11
file-ids in 8-6
keywords 4-7