Progress
Database Administration
Guide and Reference


PROREST Utility

Verifies the integrity of a database backup or restores a full or incremental backup of a database.

SYNTAX

Operating System
Syntax
UNIX
Windows
prorest db-name device-name {-vp | -vf | -list} 

db-name

Specifies the database where you want to restore the backups.

device-name

Identifies the directory pathname of the input device (for example, a tape drive) or a standard file from which you are restoring the data. If device-name identifies a block or character special device, Progress assumes the device has removable media, such as a tape or a floppy diskette.

-vp

Specifies that the restore utility reads the backup volumes and computes and compares the backup block cyclic redundancy checks (CRCs) with those in the block headers. To recover any data from a bad block, you must have specified a redundancy factor when you performed the database backup. See "Backing Up a Database," for more information about error correction blocks and data recovery.

-vf

Specifies that the restore utility only compares the backup to the database block for block.

-list

Provides a description of all application data storage areas contained within a database backup. Use the information to create a new structure description file and database so you can restore the backup.

NOTES


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