Managing the Data Protector Internal Database

Configuring the IDB

Creating or Relocating DC Directories

Creating a DC Create a DC directory using the Database context in the Data

Directory Protector Manager. See Figure 9-3.For detailed steps, refer to the online Help index keyword “creating DC directories”.

Relocating a DC To change the location of a DC directory, proceed as follows:

Directory

1.Create a new DC directory on a new location, using the Data Protector user interface. See Figure 9-3.

2.Verify that the new DC directory has been created and has enough disk space.

3.Move DC binary files from the source DC directory to the new DC directory.

4.Run the omnidbutil -remap_dcdircommand to update the pathnames of DC binary files.

5.Remove the old DC directory from the list of configured DC directories.

Figure 9-3

Creating a DC Directory
Enabling Transaction Logs

Transaction logs used by the MMDB and CDB parts of the IDB are created in the following directory:

On Windows: <Data_Protector_home>\db40\logfiles\syslog

On UNIX: /var/opt/omni/db40/logfiles/syslog

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