Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Data Management:
Database Administration

RFUTIL utility syntax

Performs various roll-forward recovery activities, depending on the qualifier you supply.

Syntax

rfutil db-name -C qualifier

Parameters

db-name

Specifies the database you are using.

-C

Specifies a particular utility or function when you use the rfutil command.

qualifier

Specifies the qualifier that you want to use. You can supply the qualifiers listed in Table 22–1.

Note: RFUTIL and its qualifiers support the use of internationalization startup parameters such as -cpinternal codepage and -cpstream codepage. See Chapter 18, "Database Startup Parameters," for a description of each database-related internationalization startup parameter.

Table 22–1: RFUTIL utility qualifiers

Qualifier	Description
AIARCHIVER DISABLE	Disables the AI File Management Utility.
AIARCHIVER ENABLE	Enables the AI File Management Utility.
AIARCHIVER END	Shuts down the AI File Management Utility daemon.
AIARCHIVER SETDIR	Changes the archive destination directory list for the AI File Management Utility daemon.
AIARCHIVER SETINTERVAL	Changes the value of the archive interval for the AI File Management daemon.
AIARCHIVE EXTENT	Archives the specified AI extent when AI File Management is not enabled.
AIMAGE AIOFF	Disables after-imaging for a database during maintenance.
AIMAGE BEGIN	Enables after-imaging for a database.
AIMAGE END	Disables after-imaging for a database.
AIMAGE EXTENT EMPTY	Marks an AI extent as empty and informs the database manager that the indicated AI extent has been manually backed up and is now free for reuse.
AIMAGE EXTENT FULL	Displays the pathname of the oldest filled file.
AIMAGE EXTENT LIST	Displays information about extents.
AIMAGE EXTRACT	Extracts the active blocks of an AI extent and writes them to a file.
AIMAGE NEW	Switches after-imaging to the next AI extent.
AIMAGE QUERY	Queries an AI extent for status.
AIMAGE SCAN	Scans AI files and displays information from that file.
AIMAGE TRUNCATE	Truncates all of the variable-length AI extents and optionally sets the AI block size with the After-image Block Size (-aiblocksize) parameter.
MARK BACKEDUP	Marks the database file, indicating that you have just completed a backup of the database.
ROLL FORWARD	Reconstructs a database by applying to that database all notes stored in the AI file.
ROLL FORWARD RETRY	Restarts the roll-forward operation on the after-image extent that was in the process of rolling forward. The retry operation finds the transaction in process at the time of failure and resumes rolling forward.

Note: You cannot use RFUTIL against a database in single-user mode.

The following RFUTIL entries describe each of these qualifiers.