Initiating the semi-live reformatVOB process

Learn how to initiate the semi-live reformatVOB process.

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Procedure

To initiate the semi-live reformatVOB process:
  1. The administrator executes the command: cleartool reformatvob -semilive <vob_stg_path>.
    Note: For any reformatvob command, the user who executes this command must be either the VOB owner or a root user.
  2. If the VOB is at schema level 54, or 80, the reformatvob -semilive operation silently upgrades that database to schema level 55 or 81.
    Note: The ending schema of the semi-live reformatVOB process is at schema 81.
  3. The VOB is then locked.
  4. The existing database (just the VOB db directory) is then copied to db.copy. This takes a couple of minutes to many minutes, depending on the size of the database directory.
  5. The VOB is then unlocked.
  6. The copied database is then used by the reformatvob dumper and loader to dump the database, and then reload the database into the directory db.semilive under the VOB database storage directory.
    The preceding steps can take many hours. Do not interrupt the process. If this process is interrupted, refer to Restrictions and limitations of semi-live reformatVOB on how to clean up and cancel the semi-live reformatVOB process before restarting.
  7. When the load is completed, a db_replay_server process is started to replay transactions from the current VOB db into the db.semilive copy of the database.