Glossary

LISTENER.ORA (Oracle specific term)

An Oracle configuration file that describes one or more Transparent Network Substrate (TNS) listeners on a server.

load balancing

By default, Data Protector automatically balances the usage of devices selected for backup, so that they are used evenly. Load balancing optimizes the device usage by balancing the number of objects written to each device. Since load balancing is done automatically during backup time, you do not need to manage how the data is actually backed up. You just specify the devices to be used. If you do not want to use load balancing, you can select which device will be used for each object in the backup specification. Data Protector will access the devices in the specified order.

local and remote recovery

Remote recovery is performed if all Media Agent hosts specified in the SRD file are accessible. If any of them fails, the disaster recovery process fails over to the local mode. This means that the target system is searched for locally attached devices. If only one device is found, it is automatically used. Otherwise, Data Protector prompts you to select the device, which will be used for restore.

lock name

You can configure the same physical device several times with different characteristics, by using different device names.

The lock name is a user specified string that is used for locking all such device configurations to prevent collision if several such devices (device names) are used concurrently. Use an identical lock name for all device definitions which use the same physical device.

log_full shell script (Informix Server

UNIX specific term)

Ascript provided by ON-Bar that you can use to start backing up logical log files when Informix Server issues a logfull event alarm. The Informix Server ALARMPROGRAM configuration parameter defaults to the <INFORMIXDIR>/etc/log_full.sh, where <INFORMIXDIR> is the Informix Server home directory. If you do not want logical logs to be backed up continuously, set the ALARMPROGRAM configuration parameter to <INFORMIXDIR>/etc/ no_log.sh.

logging level

The logging level determines the amount of details on files and directories written to the IDB during backup, object copying, or object consolidation. You can always restore your data, regardless

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