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- From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc,comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How to resize an Rdb Database
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.091514.21517@enea.se>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 09:15:14 GMT
- References: <1992Jul15.162637@mccall.com>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- Terry Poot (tp@mccall.com) writes:
- >I have an Rdb database that has grown too large. The data in it has been
- >trimmed down, but I need to shrink the actual files. I don't need explicit
- >directions, just for someone to point me in the proper direction. Things
- >I've thought off are:
- >
- >1) backup/restore. Does this resize the files?
-
- Don't remember offhand, but I don't think so.
-
- >2) Import/export. Sounds like a slow process.
-
- Well, you have a large file with a lot of holes in which you want to
- remove. Does that sound like a fast process to you. IMPORT/EXPORT
- is the standard method to handle this problem, as far as I know.
-
- >3) rmu/copy. Does this resize the files? Can I copy one area at a time so
- >that I don't need as much free space at once? Can it be done while the
- >database is in use?
-
- I don't think you can expect to resize the files with users in the
- database. I don't think RMU/COPY does much resizing anyway.
-
- >3) Create new areas and use change storage map to move the data,
- >then delete the old files. Same questions as above.
-
- Yes, this would probably work, but that is not what you have storage
- areas for. I don't recall offhand if you have to do an IMPORT/EXPORT
- here or not, but in any case, this is a more complex operation so guess
- which one which take the longest time. This could be an option, however,
- if your database is huge and only one storage area is in need of compression.
- By the way, don't just delete the files, drop the storage areas first,
- unless you want a corrupt data base.
-
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- Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
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