Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide

 

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This section provides procedures for backing up the DTACS database to tape. 

 

The script that backs up the databases is called backupDatabase. You can run the 
backupDatabase script with the following options: 

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-b - Blocks. Specifies the block size of the tape device to which the database 
backup is written. 
Note: If -b is not specified, the system uses a default tape block size appropriate 
for your tape drive. If the system is unable to determine your tape drive, the 
system uses 32. 

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-s - Size. Specifies the size of the tape device to which the database backup is 
written. 
If -s is not specified, the system uses a default tape size appropriate for your tape 
drive. If the system is unable to determine your tape drive, the system uses 
8000000. 

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-l - Local-tape-drive. Specifies the tape drive to use on the local host computer. 
(for example - /dev/rmt/0h) 

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-r - Remote-tape-drive. Specifies a tape drive on a remote host computer. 
(for example - sparky: /dev/rmt/0h or 192.168.1.10: /dev/rmt/0h) 

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-c - check-database. Checks the integrity of the databases. (Does not fix if errors 
are found.) 

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-n - non-interactive. Non-interactive, useful when running from cron. 

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-v - verbose. Verbose output. 

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-h - help. Provides a brief description of the valid options.