Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-10 Thread Wjhonson
g.org *Date:* 8/9/2012 5:45 PM *Subject:* Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud > If stopud just kills the Windows services (I don't know what it does), that will not kill the phantoms. > Each pid runs as a seperate Windows process and is not signalled when the > main services

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Bill Haskett
e a login as that user. In that users login script you put the phantoms you want to start. So when that user logs in, the phantoms start. -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 3:37 pm Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud I hav

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Wjhonson
script you put the phantoms you want to start. So when that user logs in, the phantoms start. -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 3:37 pm Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud I have no idea how that would be done. I use a

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Bill Haskett
een implemented. :-( Bill - Original Message - *From:* wjhon...@aol.com *To:* u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org *Date:* 8/9/2012 9:40 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud You have to write a script that

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Wjhonson
ssage- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 9:33 am Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud As far as I know, Windows doesn't care about UniData. If the Volume Shadow Copy service is running the backups cruise right through everything. Now, to

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Marc Harbeson
t; > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* dwolv...@flash.net > *To:* 'U2 Users List' > *Date:* 8/9/2012 6:35 AM > *Subject:* Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud > > Has the issue on

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread David Wolverton
ug.org] On Behalf Of Wally Terhune Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 11:28 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud I would not envision having every active UniData process on the system close all of their files when a dbpause command is run. Each process has it's o

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Wally Terhune
hursday, August 09, 2012 9:06 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud WELL... in theory UniData has SOME control -- I mean, on Windows, there could be a dbpause 'flag' that tells UniData to close all the open file handles on dbpause and reope

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Bill Haskett
et *To:* 'U2 Users List' *Date:* 8/9/2012 8:29 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud Hey -- this was a question I got though: Is there a way to make UniData VSS/Shadow-Copy 'aware'? Does that question come up to other people as they transition users to U2?

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Bill Haskett
ent dance to get backups to work. :-( So, I guess I can say I do feel your pain! :-) Bill - Original Message ----- *From:* dwolv...@flash.net *To:* 'U2 Users List' *Date:* 8/9/2012 8:14 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] dbpau

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Wjhonson
listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:06 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud David: I'm sure I don't have a complete understanding of your situation. I use "dbp

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Wjhonson
You've restored from backups where files were locked during the backup? -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, Aug 9, 2012 8:33 am Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud David: I'm sure I don't have a complete unders

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread David Wolverton
ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:06 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud David: I'm sure I don't have a complete understanding of your situation. I use "dbpause" all the time and run backups using Windo

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread David Wolverton
ers-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:06 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud David: I'm sure I don't have a complete understanding of your situation. I use "dbpause" all the t

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Bill Haskett
flash.net *To:* 'U2 Users List' *Date:* 8/9/2012 6:35 AM *Subject:* Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud Has the issue on Windows been resolved? Our customers reported that UniData maintained 'open files' at a dbpause, which still made the backup difficult with a dbpaus

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread David Wolverton
users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wally Terhune Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 9:38 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud Dbpause doesn't close files. It blocks updates by UniData processes to UniData files. This i

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread Wally Terhune
rsday, August 09, 2012 7:35 AM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud Has the issue on Windows been resolved? Our customers reported that UniData maintained 'open files' at a dbpause, which still made the backup difficult with a dbpaus

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-09 Thread David Wolverton
Behalf Of Wally Terhune Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 5:27 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud RFS with TP has been available in UniData for 15-20 years too. I understand your issues. I'm just saying you do have the ability in UniData to generate a co

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-08 Thread Wjhonson
List Sent: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 3:53 pm Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud RFS with TP has been available in UniData for 15-20 years too. I understand your issues. I'm just saying you do have the ability in UniData to generate a consistent backup (physical and logical) using

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-08 Thread Wally Terhune
PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud That's the rub isn't it? We have a few thousand programs written over 30 years, and only a limited staff, and users always want more. Users don't see the need to go back and *fix* code that&#

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-08 Thread Wjhonson
t issue. For a site that doesn't *have* to be 24-7 but can be say 22-7, it's safer to shutdown, then backup. You can't always control every piece of code someone has written. -Original Message- From: Wally Terhune To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 2:18 pm Subject: Re:

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-08 Thread Wally Terhune
ave a clean consistent copy. -Original Message- From: John Jenkins To: 'U2 Users List' Sent: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 6:02 am Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud "dbpause" and "dbresume" allow any background processes (e.g. PHANTOM or WebDE (Re

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-08 Thread Wjhonson
copy. -Original Message- From: John Jenkins To: 'U2 Users List' Sent: Wed, Aug 8, 2012 6:02 am Subject: Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud "dbpause" and "dbresume" allow any background processes (e.g. PHANTOM or WebDE (Redback)) to continue running. You do n

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-08-08 Thread John Jenkins
"dbpause" and "dbresume" allow any background processes (e.g. PHANTOM or WebDE (Redback)) to continue running. You do not have to have a restart procedure. Additionally, as long as your backup methodology is brief - a SAN "snap" or a mirrored drive split - then anyone using Telnet, UniObjects or OD

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-07-26 Thread Thomas . Boadu
pond to U2 Users List To cc Subject Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud Are you certain that the dbpause finished? We've had cases here where our backup scripts would hang on the dbpause command. Those cases were not random however. They all happened after a "file syst

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-07-26 Thread Dean.Armbruster
Are you certain that the dbpause finished? We've had cases here where our backup scripts would hang on the dbpause command. Those cases were not random however. They all happened after a "file system full" event. When a file system is full and a UniData write occurs that results in a file being

Re: [U2] dbpause/dbresume or stopud/startud

2012-07-26 Thread Wally Terhune
I don't think we've ever had a problem reported for dbresume not resuming the database. You can check the status with $UDTBIN/dbpause_status Wally Terhune Technical Support Engineer Rocket Software 4600 South Ulster Street, Suite 1100 **Denver, CO 80237 **USA t: +1 720 475 8055 **e: wterh...@rock