HP DP - IDB Maintenance

DataProtector IDB Maintenance

Step by Step procedure for IDB Maintenance

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       Check for any running sessions and abort if required

       Ensure no backup is running and take the IDB backup using DP.

       Disable the backup schedules (/sbin/init.d/cron stop, omnitrig -stop)

       Shutdown the DP with following command

/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv stop

       Check the omni service (omnisv status)

       Close the DP GUI & abort all DBSm Sessions

       Purge DB with below commands.

a.    omnidb -strip

b.    omnidbutil -purge_failed_copies

c.     omnidbutil -purge -filenames -force

d.    omnidbutil -purge –dcbf

       (If the purge has not finished, but you need to run backups simply stop the purge with omnidbutil -purge_stop and use DP as normal. )

       Check for a mount point with sufficient space. Usually /var/adm/crash

       Create two directories MMDB and CDB in /var/adm/crash

mkdir /var/adm/crash/MMDB /var/adm/crash/CDB

       Start the DP with following command

/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv start

       Create a copy of the existing sessions, medias, position information etc. with the following command

/omni/db40 # /opt/omni/sbin/omnidbutil -writedb -mmdb /var/adm/crash/MMDB -cdb /var/adm/crash/CDB -no_detail

       Once the above command is successful without any errors the output will be as below:

/omni/db40 # /opt/omni/sbin/omnidbutil -writedb -mmdb /var/adm/crash/MMDB -cdb /var/adm/crash/CDB -no_detail

10/07/05 12:44:18 Exporting libraries ...

10/07/05 12:44:18 Exporting pools ...

10/07/05 12:44:18 Exporting devices ...

10/07/05 12:44:18 Exporting cartridges ...

10/07/05 12:44:18 Exporting compounds ...

10/07/05 12:44:18 Exporting media ...

10/07/05 12:44:18 Exporting sessions ...

10/07/05 12:44:19 Exporting objects and object versions ...

10/07/05 12:44:23 Exporting positions ...

Please make a copy of following Internal Database directories and

then press ENTER to return Internal Database to normal state:

"/var/opt/omni/db40/msg"

DONE!

       After successful completion of writedb. Move folders /var/opt/omni/db40/dcbf* folders to /var/opt/omni/db40/dcbf*.old. Note that there can be more than one folder ex. dcbf, dcbf1, dcbf2 etc.

       Compress the content of the moved folder. This is done just to create space and these folders (dcbf*.old) will be removed later once the maintenance is successful.

       Restart the DP services using the below commands

/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv stop

/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv start

       Perform DB Read (Reads and writes to the database) using omnidbutil.

/omni/db40 # /opt/omni/sbin/omnidbutil -readdb -mmdb /var/adm/crash/MMDB -cdb /var/adm/crash/CDB -no_detail

       The above command will output messages similar to below:

       /omni/db40 # /opt/omni/sbin/omnidbutil -readdb -mmdb /var/adm/crash/MMDB -cdb /var/adm/crash/CDB -no_detail

Database import will overwrite old database. All data will be lost!

Are you sure (y/n)?y

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing libraries ...

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing pools ...

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing devices ...

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing compounds ...

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing cartridges ...

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing media ...

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing sessions ...

10/07/05 12:17:53 Importing objects and object versions ...

10/07/05 12:25:27 Importing positions ...

DONE!

       Run following command omnidbutil -fixmpos

       Once the above command is successful. Connect to DP through GUI and check the last run sessions.

       enable the backup schedule (/sbin/init.d/cron start, omnitrig -start)

       If everything looks fine. You can remove the dcbf*.old directories from /var/opt/omni/db40.

       Note that once the DB maintenance is complete. All directory/file details will be removed from the database. Hence forth need to import the medias to browse files for any restore operation.