Novell GROUPWISE 7 - DATABASES Manual page 9

The Database Recovery Process
Figure 26-1
creating.ddb
Delete creating.ddb.
wpdomain.db
Rename recover.ddb
to wpdomain.db.
Notify the administrator
that wpdomain.db
could not be recovered.
wpdomain.db
Try rebuilding
wpdomain.db.
For convenience, the agents are configured by default to automatically recover domain and post
office databases whenever a physical problem is encountered. See
wpdomain.db
wpdomain.db
recover.ddb
creating.ddb
NO Successful?
recover.ddb
NO
wpdomain.db
Check the number of
records (X) in wpdomain.db.
Rename wpdomain.db
to recover.ddb.
Read and copy records from
recover.ddb into creating.ddb. Skip
invalid records. Check the number of
records (Y) in creating.ddb.
YES
recover.ddb
Delete recover.ddb.
creating.ddb
wpdomain.db
Rename creating.ddb
to wpdomain.db.
X=Y?
Notify the administrator
that information has
been lost in the
recovery process.
wpdomain.db has been
wpdomain.db
successfully recovered.
is useable.
"Recovering the Domain
Maintaining Domain and Post Office Databases 379
YES
wpdomain.db