Custom Backup Support

The batch JADE Database utility (jdbutilb) enables you to perform database verification and checksum generation to support custom backup procedures. (For details, see "The JADE Database Utility", in Chapter 1.)

You can perform verification and checksum generation on a copy of your production database at a specific point so that you can then perform other actions to meet your requirements (for example, copying to tape).

The database content is verified (without opening the database) and a restoreinfo file is built containing calculated checksums. You could copy this restoreinfo file to tape with your database by using a mechanism of your choice, for example, and then restore the database with integrity checks, if required. For more details, see "convertToBackup" under "Running the JADE Database Utility in Batch Mode", in Chapter 1.