On 06/27/2010 08:28 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > On Jun 27, 2010, at 2:25 PM, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote: >>> The question now is, how to do a backup that can be restored to a new disk? >> >> Isn't that the question you just answered? :) > > Well, not quite ...
Indeed, I had my old database in good working order available (I just had to mount the partition) to do the dump. From that I "restored" (= rebuilt) the new database. This is very different from recovery from backup after the database is destroyed. > Procedures for backup of a Berkeley DB (with logs that are path/record > sensitive) > are described in the doco @oracle.com. An SKS keyserver database is no > different. OK, I've looked it up and here it is for the archive. The procedures are described in chapter 5 of the doc's: http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation /berkeley-db/db/gsg_txn/c/index.html Important steps: - Before backing up the files (offline), do a checkpoint (db_checkpoint command line utility). - Use catastrophic recovery when you are recovering your databases from a previously created backup to an empty directory (db_recover command line utility with the the -c option). Although I did run db_recover, I did not use the '-c' option. It would have saved me some time... Hope this helps others! :-) Arnold
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