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Database Administration
Protecting Your Data : Recovering a Database
 

Recovering a Database

This chapter explains the different ways to recover your OpenEdge database and transactions if your system or disks fail.
* Introduction to recovery mechanisms
* File locations that ensure safe recovery
* Developing a recovery plan
* Sample recovery plans
* After-imaging and roll-forward recovery commands
* Recovering from system failures
* Recovering from media failures
* Recovering from a full disk
* Truncating the BI file
* Releasing shared memory
* Recovering from a lost or damaged control area
* Unlocking damaged databases
* Dumping tables from a damaged database
* Forcing access to a damaged database