rtmark (and Event Marks) - assure_mimix - assure_mimix_for_aix - 6.0

Usage

Event Markers are tags that mark points in time or points in process that are significant to you for the purposes of recovery. An Event Marker can be selected as the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) during a data restore. They are typically needed for applications which cannot take advantage of Assure MIMIX for AIX’s Any Point-In-Time (APIT) data restores along with applications which do not have live transactional durability on disk.

The following is an example of a script that could be called, with as many arbitrary attributes to the event that you want, in addition to the time and date attribute automatically assigned by rtmark. The customer-defined attributes between the cat line and the second EOF would also be added to the event. The entire event would be copied to the recovery server, and available for viewing and selection during restores.

#!/usr/bin/ksh
cat <<-EOF | /usr/scrt/bin/rtmark -C <Context ID> -
name = test1
description = "This is a test."
owner = dave
priority = 2
another_attribute = “Just another attribute”
EOF

Syntax

rtmark [-C ] [-s <num>|-d <str>] [-iV] [<file>|-]
                rtmark -rC <Context ID>
                rtmark -h

   -C ID Event is specific to Context ID.

   -d <str> Date string, overrides event time.

   -h Help, display this message.

   -i Interactive query for event attributes.

   -r Copies event marks from the production server to the Recovery Server

   -s <num> Seconds since epoch, overrides event time.

   -V Print version.

   <file> File containing the event mark attributes.