o You must have the RMU$ALTER, RMU$BACKUP, or RMU$RESTORE
privilege in the root file access control list (ACL) for the
database or the OpenVMS SYSPRV or BYPASS privilege to use the
RMU Set After_Journal command.
o Use the RMU Dump command with the Header qualifier to see if
after-image journaling additions or changes you have made have
been recorded as you expect. However, note that although the
AIJ attributes change as you specify, the changed .aij file
might be flagged as unmodified in the dump of the header. This
occurs because the transaction containing your changes to the
.aij file is captured in the current .aij file, not the .aij
file for which you specified modifications.
o When you use RMU Set After_Journal to specify a fixed-size
journal configuration, specify a different disk for each
.aij file, if possible. Using this method, you can suppress
a journal on a given disk if that disk should start to fail.
o If the disk fails on which the current .aij file resides,
Oracle Rdb immediately starts using a new .aij file if your
journal configuration contains more than one journal. For
example, if AIJ_DISK1 contains AIJ_ONE, the current .aij file,
and AIJ_DISK1 fails, Oracle Rdb will immediately start using
AIJ_TWO, the .aij file on AIJ_DISK2.
o Execute a full database backup operation after issuing an RMU
Set After_Journal command that displays the RMU-W-DOFULLBCK
warning message (such as a command that includes the Reserve
or the Enable qualifier).
o Use the Alter qualifier to unsuppress an .aij file that has
been suppressed with the Suppress qualifier.
o Use the Backup=(Quiet_Point) qualifier to specify that the
quiet-point lock must be acquired prior to performing an
.aij backup operation for the specified database. (Use the
Backup=(Noquiet_Point) qualifier to specify that the quiet-
point lock will not be acquired prior to an .aij backup
operation for the specified database.)
o Use the RDM$BIND_ABS_QUIET_POINT logical to specify whether or
not the quiet-point lock must be acquired prior to performing
any .aij backup operation on any database on a cluster.
Define the value for the logical to be 1 to specify that the
quiet-point lock must be acquired prior to performing .aij
backup operations; define the value to be 0 to specify that
the quiet-point lock need not be acquired prior to .aij backup
operations. You must define this logical in the system table
on all nodes in the cluster as shown in the following example:
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM RDM$BIND_ABS_QUIET_POINT 1
o The selection of which journal in a set of fixed-size journal
files is used by Oracle RMU is unpredictable and depends on
availability. For example, while a journal is temporarily
unavailable, it cannot be selected as the next journal file.
Thus, a journal file might be reused before all journals in
the set have been used once.