Course description: UniData Recoverable File System 

Learn how to manage the Recoverable File System (RFS) portions of a UNIX-based UniData database system. Learn how to install and configure this additional component of UniData. Understand all the necessary pieces and how to maintain them on a daily basis. Execute software to recover from a system or media failure with minimal interruption in service. Also, become familiar with tools that allow you to monitor RFS system performance.

Skills taught 

• Recognize components for RFS in a UniData environment
• Install and set up for RFS
• Maintain an RFS system
• Back up recoverable files
• Perform system recovery after a failure
• Perform media recovery after a failure

Course outline 

• What is RFS?
• Major components of RFS
• Installation
• Deciding what needs to be recoverable
• Creating configuration files
• Marking files as recoverable
• Initializing RFS
• Daily operations with RFS
• Backing up the database
• System recovery
• Media recovery
• Recovery from loss of RFS components
• Monitoring RFS