datalist.dat

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DESCRIPTION

In this file sets of files are defined that can be scheduled to be saved in the schedule.dat file.

FILEFORMAT

DATALIST ; DESCRIPTION ; DIRECTORY ;

Rows starting with a # are considered as comments. Empty lines are allowed, too.

It is allowed to have multiple lines in the file having the identical DATALIST definition, but different DIRECTORY entries to enable to save data from different directories with one schedule. If multiple lines are defined, ensure that all DESCRIPTION entries of those lines are identical due to the fact that only the first DESCRIPTION definition of a DATALIST will be saved in the lots job and conserved for the duration of the data retention.

OPTIONS

DATALIST

name of the data list, the set of directories or files to be saved. To save data defined here in the DATALIST, DIRECTORY pair, a relating DATALIST entry in the schedule.dat file must exist.

DESCRIPTION

description of the datalist respectively of the data to be saved.

Be aware that this should be a meaningful description due to the fact that this data is saved for a long time and people having done the definition might have moved on before the data might be needed for restore.

DIRECTORY

definition of the directory or file(s) to be saved in this set. If a directory is specified, all files and subdirectories are saved. If a file is specified only the matching file(s) are saved. It is allowed to use wild-cards, but if you want to save multiple directories that cannot be defined using wild-cards, create multiple DATALIST entries.

To resolve the files/directories to be saved, lots uses

find DIRECTORY -print

internally. Therefore if you are unsure if your definition is correct, use this command for verification or start a collect run using ' lots -a collect -d DATALIST ' to verify the setting.

EXAMPLES

#
# var/lots/objects/datalist.dat - data save definition
#
# [00] 30.09.2009 CWa   Initial Version
#
#DATALIST     ;DESCRIPTION                                            ;DIRECTORY;
DB_CEDPROD    ;Database, PRODUCTION, PReCED                           ;/orara/be/CEDPROD/export/daily/g0;
DB_COIPROD    ;Database, PRODUCTION, OpenCO                           ;/orara/be/COIPROD/export/daily/g0;
DB_DMSPROD    ;Database, PRODUCTION, Phoenix DocumentManagementSystem ;/orara/be/DMSPROD/export/daily/g0;

DB_ASYPROD    ;Database, PRODUCTION, AutoSYS Job Scheduler            ;/orara/be/ASYPROD/export/daily/g0;

SQL_CHaT      ;MSSQL Database, PRODUCTION, CHaT                       ;/dat/sqlra/be/CHaT/export/daily/g0;
SQL_plumdb    ;MSSQL Database, PRODUCTION, plumdb                     ;/dat/sqlra/be/plumdb/export/daily/g0;

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