Novell GROUPWISE 8 - DATABASES Manual page 9

The Database Recovery Process
Figure 26-1
creating.ddb
Delete creating.ddb.
recover.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
Database Automatically or Immediately" on page 670
Automatically or Immediately" on page
To recover a specific database in ConsoleOne:
1 Make sure you have network access to the domain or post office directory for the database you
are recovering.
wpdomain.db
Check the number of
records (X) in wpdomain.db.
wpdomain.db
recover.ddb
Rename wpdomain.db
to recover.ddb.
creating.ddb
Read and copy records from
recover.ddb into creating.ddb . Skip
invalid records. Check the number of
records (Y) in creating.ddb .
NO Successful?
NO
Notify the administrator
that information has
been lost in the
recovery process.
wpdomain.db
wpdomain.db
is useable.
540.
YES
recover.ddb
Delete recover.ddb .
creating.ddb
wpdomain.db
Rename creating.ddb
to wpdomain.db.
YES
X=Y ?
wpdomain.db
wpdomain.db has been
successfully recovered.
"Recovering the Domain
and "Recovering the Post Office Database
Maintaining Domain and Post Office Databases 395