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Maintaining Domain and Post Office Databases 379
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Figure 26-1
The Database Recovery Process
For convenience, the agents are configured by default to automatically recover domain and post
office databases whenever a physical problem is encountered. See
“Recovering the Domain
Successful?
creating.ddb
NO YES
creating.ddb
Read and copy records from
recover.ddb
into
creating.ddb
. Skip
invalid records. Check the number of
records ( Y ) in creating.ddb .
Delete creating.ddb.
creating.ddb
wpdomain.db
Try rebuilding
wpdomain.db.
Notify the administrator
that wpdomain.db
could not be recovered.
Rename recover.ddb
to wpdomain.db.
Delete recover.ddb .
wpdomain.db
Rename creating.ddb
to wpdomain.db.
wpdomain.db has been
successfully recovered.
wpdomain.db
Check the number of
records (
X ) in wpdomain.db.
wpdomain.db
recover.ddb
Rename wpdomain.db
to recover.ddb.
recover.ddb
recover.ddb
wpdomain.db
X=Y ?
NO YES
wpdomain.db
is useable.
Notify the administrator
that information has
been lost in the
recovery process.
wpdomain.db
wpdomain.db