RDF/IMP, IMPX, and ZLT System Management Manual
Introducing RDF
HP NonStop RDF/IMP, IMPX, and ZLT System Management Manual—524388-002
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RDF Control Subvolume
RDF Control Subvolume
The INITIALIZE RDF command includes a control subvolume suffix parameter 
(SUFFIX char ), where char is an alphanumeric character. If you include this 
parameter, the RDF control subvolume on $SYSTEM will be the local (primary) system 
name without the backslash and with the specified character appended to it. If you omit 
this parameter, the RDF control subvolume on $SYSTEM will merely be the local 
system name without the backslash.
If you want to have several RDF configurations with the same primary system, each 
configuration must have its own control subvolume and you must use the SUFFIX 
char parameter. Thus, if the name of your primary system is \BOSTON and you 
assign the suffix “1”, the control subvolume will be named BOSTON1. If you have two 
RDF configurations primaried on \BOSTON, you could initialize one RDF configuration 
with the suffix “1” and the other with the suffix “2” so that their control subvolumes 
would be named, respectively, “BOSTON1” and “BOSTON2”.
The control subvolume on the primary system contains the following files:
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.CONTEXT
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.CONFIG
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.RDFLOCK
The control subvolume on the backup system contains these files:
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.CONTEXT
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.CONFIG
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.RDFLOCK
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.RDFTKOVR
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.ZFILEINC
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$SYSTEM.<control-subvolume>.ZRCVnn (where nn is 01-15)
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Exception files for each updater (see under RDF System Files in appendix B)
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Image files for image trail subvolumes (for example, $IMAGE.<control-
subvolume>.AA000001).
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$IMAGE.<control-subvolume>.ZFILUNDO (master image trail only)
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$IMAGE.<control-subvolume>.ZTXUNDO (master image trail only)
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$IMAGE.<control-subvolume>.ZNETUNDO (master image trail only)
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$IMAGE.<control-subvolume>.ZRDFLCMT (master image trail only)
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$IMAGE.<control-subvolume>.ZRDFLCM2 (master image trail only)
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$IMAGE.<control-subvolume>.ZRDFLCM3 (master image trail only)










