RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? {Unclassified}

2007-07-06 Thread Brian Leach
@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? {Unclassified} Ah, yes there it is in the User Reference, like you said Mark. BUT, on 10.1 anyway, * 'SUSPEND.FILES' is not in the Index of the User Reference, you have to search the document to find it. * When you do

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-06 Thread Jerry Banker
This is one of many reasons to do all reading and writing to the database by using subroutines built on the database. -Original Message- From: Hona, David S [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:49 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups

Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-05 Thread Timothy Snyder
For any Backup solution that uses the Microsoft VSS Snapshot functionality, or an Advanced Open File Manager option, would it be safe to say that for UD applications, they should issue the DBPAUSE command, grab a snapshot, then DBRESUME - *for each Backup requested*, to ensure optimal

Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-05 Thread Scott Richardson
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - Original Message - From: Timothy Snyder [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? For any Backup solution that uses the Microsoft VSS Snapshot functionality, or an Advanced Open

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? [not-secure]

2007-07-05 Thread Hennessey, Mark F.
snip I am still not finding any real documentation details on UV's SUSPEND.FILES ON/OFF. /snip As an aside, I suspect you are suffering from the poor organization of the UniVerse documentation. I would expect something like this to be in a guide for administrators, yet SUSPEND.FILE is

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? [not-secure]

2007-07-05 Thread Ron Sharcott
@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? [not-secure] snip I am still not finding any real documentation details on UV's SUSPEND.FILES ON/OFF. /snip As an aside, I suspect you are suffering from the poor organization of the UniVerse documentation. I would expect

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? [not-secure]

2007-07-05 Thread Timothy Snyder
I thought DBPAUSE allowed running processes to finish but would hold new processes . That's not much of a pause when you think that a process could be running for hours before the system is truly paused. Fortunately, that's not true. Only pending writes are processed, not entire programs.

Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen O'Neal
Specialist Information Management, IBM Software Group Scott Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/05/07 07:58 AM Please respond to u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org cc Subject Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? ... Does

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-05 Thread Stephen O'Neal
Specialist Information Management, IBM Software Group Ron Sharcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/05/07 09:50 AM Please respond to u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org cc Subject RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? [not-secure] I thought

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? {Unclassified}

2007-07-05 Thread HENDERSON MIKE, MR
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hennessey, Mark F. Sent: Friday, 6 July 2007 3:34 a.m. To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? [not-secure] snip I am still not finding any real documentation

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? {Unclassified}

2007-07-05 Thread Hona, David S
' for the UniVerse documentation set? Then it can be submitted to IBM? Regards David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HENDERSON MIKE, MR Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 6:30 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-05 Thread Bill Haskett
configurations and implementations. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen O'Neal Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:52 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? Slight correction

Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-04 Thread Scott Richardson
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - Original Message - From: Stephen O'Neal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:16 PM Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups Colin Alfke asked: Along that line - would there be anything else that may be holding up DBPAUSE? A cause of a slow response back from DBPAUSE

Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-04 Thread Manu Fernandes
SUSPEND.FILES ON/OFF Manu - Original Message - From: Scott Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? I have followed this thread with much interest. I have scoured the U2

RE: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse?

2007-07-04 Thread LeRoy Dreyfuss
:16 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE for UniVerse? SUSPEND.FILES ON/OFF Manu - Original Message - From: Scott Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [U2] UD Backups - DBPAUSE

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-29 Thread Brutzman, Bill
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:47 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups Bill: Try http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AutomateNTBackup. Let me know if this helps. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-28 Thread Brutzman, Bill
Bill: I would be interested to look over these NT scripts... --Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:32 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups Colin: As always

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-28 Thread Bill Haskett
: [U2] UD Backups Bill: I would be interested to look over these NT scripts... --Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 7:32 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups Colin

Re: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-27 Thread Doug Miller
At 11:29 AM 6/26/2007, you wrote: I've been testing NTBackup recently. There are some significant time delays in backuping up a UD system vs a plain Windows system. One thing to look at is the size of data prior to backup, IE the size of the data source, not the size of the resultant backup

RE: {Blocked Content} RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Haskett
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:16 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: {Blocked Content} RE: [U2] UD Backups Bill; How long does the backup take on the server if you shutdown UD first? Just

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Haskett
Thanks Doug, I'll look at this. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Miller Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:26 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] UD Backups At 11:29 AM 6/26/2007, you wrote: I've been testing

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-27 Thread Timothy Snyder
...I was hoping someone would have experience with a high-speed backup product that would backup open files for U2. Since our application has a module that uses ASP.NET we really don't want to shut down the dbms for very long (this is more important than backuping up open files and not

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-27 Thread colin.alfke
So it could be anything from poor drive setup/layout, slow controller, lack of ram, busy server (domain controller?). I have seen print processes run amok and create items in the temp folder that filled the drive. Maybe that's where your extra space went. I haven't seen anything taking up 10

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-27 Thread Bill Haskett
many backup files it crashes the disk). Thanks again. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:19 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups So it could be anything from

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-27 Thread Stephen O'Neal
Colin Alfke asked: Along that line - would there be anything else that may be holding up DBPAUSE? A cause of a slow response back from DBPAUSE is not enough disk drives under a system. When DBPAUSE is initiated, it flushes all of the UDT disk buffers to disk. If there is a lot of data

[U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread Bill Haskett
I've been testing NTBackup recently. There are some significant time delays in backuping up a UD system vs a plain Windows system. All servers run Windows 2003 Server Standard, updated several weeks ago. One server is an IIS web server using .NET while the other is a UniData server. There's

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread Brutzman, Bill
: [U2] UD Backups I've been testing NTBackup recently. There are some significant time delays in backuping up a UD system vs a plain Windows system. All servers run Windows 2003 Server Standard, updated several weeks ago. One server is an IIS web server using .NET while the other is a UniData

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread Jerry Banker
Subject: [U2] UD Backups I've been testing NTBackup recently. There are some significant time delays in backuping up a UD system vs a plain Windows system. All servers run Windows 2003 Server Standard, updated several weeks ago. One server is an IIS web server using .NET while the other

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread Bill Haskett
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 10:45 AM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups 1. How big is the data? 2. How about (OS) copying to disk and then to a portable hard-drive or burn to DVD? --Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread Bill Haskett
from mv.NET and DesignBais (in the case of the development server). Thanks, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Banker Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:00 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups I admit I

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread Brutzman, Bill
Bill-- I presume that UniData invokes an NT service that could be disabled in an VB Script. The files could then be copied. Check out... VB Script, Step By Step, Ed Wilson, Microsoft Press, 2007. --Bill --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit

RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread Bill Haskett
of days passed in via the command line. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:16 PM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2] UD Backups Bill-- I presume that UniData invokes an NT

{Blocked Content} RE: [U2] UD Backups

2007-06-26 Thread colin.alfke
Warning: This message has had one or more attachments removed Warning: (not named). Warning: Please read the AngelicHost-Attachment-Warning.txt attachment(s) for more information. Bill; How long does the backup take on the server if you shutdown UD first? Just trying to rule out a problem with

RE: [U2] [UD] backups

2006-02-10 Thread Bill Haskett
Ken: Thank you very muchntbackup, here I come. :-) Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Wallis Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:31 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] backups Bill Haskett

RE: [U2] [UD] backups

2006-02-10 Thread Bill Haskett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:52 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] backups Ken: Thank you very muchntbackup, here I come. :-) Bill

RE: [U2] [UD] backups

2006-02-10 Thread Allen E. Elwood
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:30 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] backups As an aside, what does one do when rebuilding a machine from one of these backups? 1) reinstall windows 2

RE: [U2] [UD] backups

2006-02-10 Thread Doug Miller
The problem with NT backup is that it will skip files that are open. So if you have people logged in or jobs running, the files will be skipped. I believe I have seen VOC's skipped (and maybe other files) for no apparent reason either. See some of the posts here.

[U2] [UD] backups

2006-02-09 Thread Bill Haskett
I'm so confused. How does one go about doing a UniData (on Windows) backup? 1) Drag drop the @UDTHOME directory (but then how does one restore it)? 2) Is there some sort of save verb that I can use after I: :SETTAPE 9 E:/Backups/UDBackups E:/Backups/UDBackups 512 Following this, can one do

RE: [U2] [UD] backups

2006-02-09 Thread Ken Wallis
Bill Haskett wrote: I'm so confused. How does one go about doing a UniData (on Windows) backup? The same way you back up any other application on Windows - using whatever windows tool you like, ideally against a quiescent database - ie log everyone off, or do a dbpause. 1) Drag drop the