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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:48 am
by mctny
the files might have been deleted prior to the backup. what do you mean that when the DS working, does it mean you were able to connect to the DataStage server, because you won't be using those files when you just connect or compile a job.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:07 pm
by mystuff
what do you mean that when the DS working
The files went missing on 21st. And we were able to compile/run the jobs as usual. We took back up from 17th. The backup didnt work. I am guessing the restore of backup was not complete.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:24 pm
by ray.wurlod
The .uvconfig file only comes into play when DataStage is started. If DataStage is running you can delete .uvconfig - but you'll never be able to start DataStage again.

Can you look at the index of an earlier backup to see whether it has .uvconfig, uvconfig and the bin directory? If so, you should be able to restore from these; the files don't often get changed.

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:47 pm
by mystuff
Can you look at the index of an earlier backup
What do you mean by index of earlier backup?

I found these in the DSEngine directory

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uvconfig.101005.152944.bak
uvconfig.20060308
uvodbc.config
It also has bin directory with contents (dsapi_server, dsapi_slave, dsrpcd, uvsh)

Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 4:40 pm
by ray.wurlod
"Look at the index" of a backup means read the media without actually restoring to disk.

uvodbc.config is unrelated to the current issue. Does uvregen exist in the bin directory? Looks like uvconfig.20060308 might be a replaced version; might be worth making a copy of that as uvconfig if you can't find a more recent one.

Problem is, what else is missing?

Second problem is, what are you (your site) going to do to prevent files from going missing in the future?