Job Management Partner 1/Software Distribution Client Description and User's Guide

7.4.2 Managing backups

If recovery fails, you can retry recovery if the backup is saved. This subsection describes how to specify the backup file storage period and how to manage the backup directory.

For details on managing backups of the HP-UX version of another company's software, see the documentation for the OS.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Specifying the backup file storage period

(2) Displaying backups

(3) Deleting unnecessary backups

(1) Specifying the backup file storage period

To specify the backup file storage period, specify BackupDataKeep in the packaging-information file. To save a backup, specify the number of days to keep it. If you do not save the backup (recovery is not retried), specify 0 (default).

The backup is deleted when the following command is executed after the number of days specified here elapses from the package distribution date.

rdssnd, rdsrf, and rdsft commands
However, backups are not deleted when the rdsft command for packaging is executed.

(2) Displaying backups

To check the information about the saved backups, execute the rdsrecover command of the client services.

(3) Deleting unnecessary backups

Delete unnecessary backups to prevent the disk from becoming full. You can delete backups as follows:

Execute the Delete backup file job in the managing server.

Execute the rdsclear command of the client services in a UNIX relay system or distribution system.

When you use the rdsbkclear command of the client services, the execution result is not reported to the managing server. In this case, execute the Get installed package status job from the managing server to reflect the execution result in the managing server.

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