6. Backup Procedures

The HiRDB administrator must back up the database in order to be prepared for possible errors. This chapter describes the backup procedures.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Organization of this chapter

6.1 Backup

6.2 Backup acquisition mode

6.3 RDAREAs to be backed up together

6.4 Examples of backup

6.5 Acquiring a differential backup

6.6 Example of shell for backing up after synchronization point dump validation

6.7 Backup acquisition using JP1/OmniBack II (applicable to HP-UX only)

6.8 Backup acquisition using backup-hold (backup without using the pdcopy command)

6.9 Backup acquisition when the frozen update command (pddbfrz command) is used