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System Administrator’s Guide to Installing DataMgr

Setup Tasks

3-7

Setup T

asks

If this nightly backup fails, DataMgr sends a mail
message to

root

notifying the system administrator

the status of the

bfsdb_backup

. Failed backups are

sent to

/etc/dm/raima/log/

bfsdb_backup.

logfilename.

You can recover a previous backup version of the
database by using the

/etc/bfs/usr/utils/bfsdb_restore

utility

that allows you to either restore the most recent
backup or restore a specified version. For more
information, refer to the

Utility Reference chapter

in

System Administrator’s Guide to Using DataMgr.

Step 3.

Edit, if needed, a

cron

job to run the

/

etc/dmfs/user/utils/dmfsscan

utility.

Step 4.

Edit, if needed, a

cron

job to run the

/

etc/bfs/usr/utils/bfsmaint

utility.

Assign a Backup
Volume

Step 1.

Restrict the BFS Database backup directory, located
under

/archive/BFSDB_Backup

on AMASS, to a

specified volume group. In our example, we want
the backup to be assigned to volume group 600.

Note

Do not use volume group 0 (zero) for the BFS
Database backups.