Grass Valley NewsShare v.5.5 - Manual (Page 98)

Appendix Database Maintenance Utilities
96 Digital News Production
Overview
>>> CAUTION: Use these utilities with great care. The restore and drop
commands, respectively, overwrite and delete existing databases such that
current data will be lost.
When used, the utilities must be run from the C:\Program Files\Vibrint 3.0\DB
Maintenance directory of the machine whose database is being operated upon.
The user must be a member of the system’s Administrators group. For a local,
stand-alone machine, run the utilities at that workstation. For the central News
database of a shared storage system (NewsShare), run the utilities at the FSM
or DSM.
The six database utilities are:
To run any of the utilities, open a command window and type the command.
The following sections describe each utility and its usage. Note that filenames
used in the commands must be fully qualified.
Before running any of the utilities, follow these preparatory steps:
• For restore and drop operations, the News database must be servicing no
clients. Close all DNP applications that would use it.
• For FSM- and DSM-based News databases, observe these constraints:
- Back up the database from the primary FSM or DSM.
- If automatic database backups are scheduled, they must be set to occur
during periods of extremely low system utilization, preferably when zero
NewsShare or Profile systems are recording or playing clips.
Name Description
newsBackUpDb Backs up the News database
newsRestoreDb Restores the database from a backup
newsDropDb Removes the database (for complete uninstall)
newsInstallDb Recreates an empty News database
newsShrinkDb Shrinks the database
newsInitAutoBack Schedules automatic backups of the News database