RFUTIL Utility
Performs various roll-forward recovery activities, depending on the qualifier you supply.
SYNTAX
Operating System
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Syntax
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UNIX
Windows
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rfutil db-name -C qualifier
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db-name
Specifies the database you are using.
-C
Specifies a particular utility or function when you use the rfutil
command.
qualifier
Specifies the qualifier that you want to use. You can supply the qualifiers listed in Table 19–8.
NOTE: RFUTIL and its qualifiers support the use of internationalization startup parameters such as
-cpinternal
codepage
and
-cpstream
codepage. See
"Database Startup Parameters," for a description of each database-related internationalization startup parameter.
Table 19–8: RFUTIL Utility Qualifiers
Qualifier
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Description
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AIMAGE AIOFF
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Disables after-imaging for a database during maintenance.
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AIMAGE BEGIN
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Enables after-imaging for a database.
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AIMAGE END
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Disables after-imaging for a database.
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AIMAGE EXTENT EMPTY
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Marks an AI extent as empty and informs the Progress database manager that the indicated AI extent has been manually backed up and is now free for reuse.
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AIMAGE EXTENT FULL
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Displays the pathname of the oldest filled file.
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AIMAGE EXTENT LIST
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Displays information about extents.
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AIMAGE NEW
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Switches after-imaging to the next AI extent.
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AIMAGE SCAN
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Scans any after-image (AI) file and displays information from that file.
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AIMAGE TRUNCATE
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Truncates all of the variable-length after-image (AI) extents and optionally sets the AI block size with the After-image Block Size (-aiblocksize ) parameter.
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MARK BACKEDUP
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Marks the database file, indicating that you have just completed a backup of the database.
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ROLL FORWARD
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Reconstructs a database by applying to that database all notes stored in the after-image (AI) file.
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ROLL FORWARD RETRY
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Restarts the roll-forward operation on the after-image extent that was in the process of rolling forward. The retry operation finds the transaction in process at the time of failure and resumes rolling forward.
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The following RFUTIL entries describe each of these qualifiers.