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Protecting Your Data : After-imaging : Enabling after-imaging offline
 

Enabling after-imaging offline

Use the RFUTIL utility with the AIMAGE BEGIN qualifier to enable after-imaging. The use of after-imaging requires a recent backup of the database because the database backup and AI files are treated as a recoverable set of files.
To enable after-imaging for an offline database:
1. Create the AI areas in your database. See Creatingafter-image areas for detailed instructions.
2. Back up your database.
3. After you back up your database, enable after imaging.
Use the following command to enable after-imaging:
rfutil db-name -C aimage begin
After imaging is enabled. However if the database has been modified since it was last backed up, RFUTIL displays an error message and does not enable after-imaging.
* Enabling encrypted after-imaging offline for an encryption-enabled database
* Enabling unencrypted after-imaging offline for an encryption-enabled database