RDF/IMP and IMPX System Management Manual (RDF 1.3+)

Entering RDFCOM Commands
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Command Overview
INITIALIZE RDF
The INITIALIZE RDF command creates the RDF configuration and context files for
establishment of a new RDF configuration.
There must be no RDF configuration file in the control subvolume on either the primary
or backup systems when you issue this command, otherwise the command will fail. If
you are issuing the INITIALIZE RDF command within an existing RDF configuration,
you must first delete all the files from the RDF control subvolume on both the primary
and backup systems.
backup-system-name
specifies the backup system. The system name begins with a backslash (\) followed
by 1 to 7 letters or digits; the first character following the backslash must be a letter.
There is no default system name.
suffix-character
is an alphanumeric character to be appended to the primary system name to form the
RDF control subvolume name. If you omit the SUFFIX parameter, the default
control subvolume name is the name of the primary system with no suffix character.
TIMESTAMP <day><mon><year><hour>:<min>
causes RDF to initialize at the specified time, which must correspond exactly to the
time of a TMF shutdown.
day
is a number from 1 to 31.
month
is the first three letters of the month, such as JAN, FEB, MAR.
year
is a four-digit number greater than 1996.
hour
is a number from 0 to 23.
INITIALIZE RDF , BACKUPSYSTEM backup-system-name
[ , SUFFIX suffix-character ]
[ , TIMESTAMP <day><mon><year><hour>:<min> ]
[ , INITTIME <day><mon><year><hour>:<min> ]
[ , SYNCHDBTIME <day><mon><year><hour>:<min> ][!]
Note. There is no space between day, month, and year. The seconds must not be
included in the timestamp.