recoverpacket

recoverpacket

[ –cl/an clan-name ] [ –site site-name ] –fam/ily family-name
–u/ser username [–p/assword ] password [ –sin/ce date-time ] replica ...

The recoverpacket command resets the epoch row at a sending replica to reflect the last synchronization sent to a replica before a particular time. It scans through a list of epoch rows saved at the time of each export, looking for an entry prior to the time specified. When it finds an entry, it uses the associated row to reset the epoch row for the specified receiving replica. The next packet that is exported includes the changes that were in the lost packet.

Resetting epoch numbers automatically

When you send an update packet to another replica, success of the transport and import phases is assumed. Therefore, the sending replica's epoch number matrix is updated to reflect that the changes are made at the receiving replica. However, if the packet is lost before reaching the receiving replica, the sending replica's assumption that the receiving replica is up to date is incorrect.

The epoch numbers at the sending replica must be returned to the values they had before the packet was sent. Making these corrections to the sending replica's epoch number matrix causes it to include the same changes in the next update packet it sends to the receiving replica.

The administrator at the receiving replica must run a dumpoplog command to determine the time of the last successful import. The administrator at the sending replica uses this time in the recoverpacket command.

Resetting epoch numbers manually

If there are no saved epoch rows that are as old as the specified time, the recoverpacket command fails. In this case, the administrator at the receiving replica must use the lsepoch command to determine the correct epoch number, and the administrator at the sending replica must run chepoch on the sending replica to reset the epoch row.

You must have Super User privileges.

Specifying the clan, site, and family

Default

Clan: First clan replicated at this site. If there is more than one dbset connection registered on this host, –clan is required.

Site: Current site. If there is more than one site on this host, –site is required.

Family: No default; you must specify a family.

–cl/an clan-name

Name of the replica’s clan.

–site site-name

Name of the replica’s site.

–fam/ily family-name

User database family: Database name given to the user database when it was created.

Schema repository family: Use the MASTR family if you want to recover information about the working schema repository. If you have lost a packet, run recoverpacket on both the MASTR and user database families and then run syncreplica again.

Specifying a user name and password

Default

You must specify a user name and password.

–u/ser user

Name of a user with Super User privileges.

–p/assword password

Password associated with the specified user.

Specifying the time

Default

If you do not specify the time, recoverpacket uses the current time (and therefore, resets the epoch row so that the changes in the most recent update packet are resent).

–since date-time

Specifies the time of the last successful processing of a packet at the receiving replica. The date-time argument can have any of the following formats:

date.time | date | time

where:

date:

= day-of-week | long-date

time:

= h[h]:m[m][:s[s]] [UTC [ [ + | - ]h[h][:m[m] ] ] ]

day-of-week:

= today |yesterday |Sunday | ... |Saturday |Sun | ... |Sat

long-date:

= d[d]–month[–[yy]yy]

month:

= January |... |December |Jan |... |Dec

Specify the time in 24-hour format, relative to the local time zone. If you omit the time, the default value is 00:00:00. If you omit the date, the default value is today. If you omit the century, year, or a specific date, the most recent one is used. Specify UTC if you want the time to be resolved to the same moment in time regardless of time zone. Use the plus (+) or minus (-) operator to specify a positive or negative offset to the UTC time. If you specify UTC without hour or minute offsets, the default setting is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). (Dates before January 1, 1970 Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) are not valid.)

Examples

• 22-November-2002
• sunday
• yesterday.16:00
• 0
• 8-jun
• 13:00
• today
• 9-Aug.10:00UTC

replica ...

Site name of the replica for which the epoch row is reset.