Re: [RDD] Database Access Question(s)

2016-12-03 Thread Geoff Barkman
Hi Alan (Thought I'd sent this email a few days back... but I discovered it in my drafts) Yes you can have multiple computers accessing the rivendell database at the same time BUT there are a few restrictions. If you were editing logs on your machine and someone else edited the same log on

Re: [RDD] Database Access Question(s)

2016-11-25 Thread Geoff Barkman
Hi Alan How old is the Database? I ran into problems when my system had been running 2 or 3 years. I have a cronjob set up to automaticly back up the database every week at the same time and append the current date / time to the filename so a sequential backup is kept. I think I fixed it by

Re: [RDD] Database Access Question(s)

2016-11-25 Thread Mike Carroll
I've never run into the backup problem, but here's a couple of things you might try to figure out why: check /var/log/messages for anything "interesting" around the time of one of the failures; run RDAdmin from a command line then do a backup so any messages it issues appear at the terminal.