RDF/IMP and IMPX System Management Manual (RDF 1.4+)

Entering RDFCOM Commands
HP NonStop RDF/IMP and IMPX System Management Manual—524388-001
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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 files 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.
Note. If you plan to initialize more than one RDF subsystem on your primary system, then you
must open each new control subvolume before you initialize and configure your new RDF
environment. This means that after you have initialized one RDF subsystem, you must enter
an OPEN command, specifying the new control subvolume. You can then enter the
INITIALIZE command. If a configuration file is not already in the specified control subvolume
when the open command is issued, RDFCOM issues a warning indicating that a configuration
record was not found. This is expected behavior.
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.