Preface

This document describes detection and recovery procedures that can be used to recover the DirX Directory Basic Access Method (DBAM) database component of a deployed DirX Directory service from general problems and from the main types of database errors that can occur.

The goal of this document is to provide recommendations, guidelines, and procedures for recovering from DBAM database errors both generally and for a set of specific error cases. The step-by-step procedures collect and summarize information about detecting and recovering from database errors that is described in more detail in other documents in the DirX Directory set.

This document consists of the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1 describes the prerequisites to using the recovery procedures described in the document and defines terms used in recovery procedure descriptions

  • Chapter 2 describes the steps that should be followed to recover from any type of DBAM database error

  • Chapter 3 describes procedures for determining and recovering from specific types of DBAM database errors

  • Chapter 4 describes the main methods that can be used to restore a DBAM database when the type of database error cannot be determined