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Dbvisit Replicate offers automatic house keeping (housekeeping) on the following files:

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The management of the PLOGs can be found in the MINE/APPLY log files by searching for "plog maintenance with settings".

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The management

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of plogs is only updated on every PLOG switch.

Last obsolete plog on Apply

The last plog (last obsolete plog) needed on apply can be found by searching in the Apply log for the following string:

 

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First plog needed (and thus not eligible for deletion):

If Apply is restarted, it will start processing from this plog. 

 

 

 

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The last obsolete plog information is only updated on every PLOG switch.

 

 

 

Dbvisit Replicate redo files

If the FETCHER process is used, then redo logs are transferred from the source database server to the server where the MINE process running. The management of these redo logs are done according to the following settings:

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The management of the redo logs can be found in the MINE log files by searching for "rlog maintenance with settings".

The management is done on every log switch. The redo logs are located in a directory called mine_stage.

Dbvisit Replicate log files

  • . These are set managed to keep one backup file and a size limit of 100MB. This is configurable through the parameters:
    • LOG_FILE_SIZE
    • LOG_FILE_COUNT
    • LOG_FILE_DATE_ROTATE

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To obtain a list of obsolete archived redo log files that are not needed by Dbvisit Replicate anymore and therefore maybe deleted (by RMAN), run the following command in Dbvisit Replicate command console:

 

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LIST OBSOLETE REDO [THREAD thread]

 

The oldest archive log that MINE will ever need is "last obsolete sequence" + 1

The oldest archive log that APPLY will ever need is the sequence # that APPLY is working on

Scripting the output of the "list status" command

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start-console.sh --silent engine mine send engine status  | grep Sequence
start-console.sh --silent engine apply send engine status  | grep Sequence

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The MINE process returns the PLOG sequence and the redo sequence. If RAC is not used, then this number will be the same.

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The Dbvisit Replicate executable (dbvrep) is a self contained executable and contains all the necessary required libraries for it to function. These libraries are extracted out of the executable and into the default temporary directory of the system at startup of dbvrep. Dbvisit Replicate will reuse these cache files the next time that it is started. This maybe noticeable in the startup time of dbvrep. If the cache already exists, the startup time is faster.

It maybe possible that there are several cache directories. This can happen if a new version of Dbvisit Replicate is installed. The old cache directories can be removed, however when dbvrep is running, it is difficult to determine which is the current cache and which is the old cache. If the cache needs to be removed, then is preferable to shutdown dbvrep and then remove all cache files and then to restart dbvrep. 

The cache files are in the OS default temp directory under a directory called par-username

Example to remove the Dbvisit Replicate cache:

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rm -rf /tmp/par-oracle
Note
  1. Ensure Dbvisit Replicate is stopped before the cache is removed
  2. Configurations settings are NOT stored in the cache
  3. Data being replicated is NOT stored in the cache