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Glossary- Important keywords and explanation.
When the status of a backup is 'AVAILABLE', that means that the backup is valid and can be used for a restore/duplicate. |
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Cluster IDentifier. This is a unique number allocated to a specified PostgreSQL instance. It is important to keep this ID always assigned to the same cluster, because the Backup UID contain this ID. | |
The DEPOSIT is a database where RECM store all backups informations. (It is comparable to the Oracle RMAN CATALOG. ) | |
When the status of a backup is 'FAILED', that means that the backup process failed and dit not reach the end. An FAILED willbe changed to INCOMPLETE after next 'verify backup' command. |
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When the status of a backup is 'INCOMPLETE', that means that some (or all) backup piece are missing. An INCOMPLETE backup cannot be used for a restore. |
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When the status of a backup is 'OBSOLETE', that means that the backup as reached the retention limit. This state is depending on the configuration qualifiers '/full', '/meta' and '/cfg' in the 'modify cluster' command. An OBSOLETE backup cannot be used for a restore. |
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The UID is the Unique IDentifier of each backup. The UID is composed into two distinct part :
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