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How to look good as a DBA?
OE Replication
Tony Brooks
Not like this Guy
Replication can make you look good
This Guy, not too sure?
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Great Timing
Early October 2010 Purchased Replication Plus
• BCP and Offload Production Reporting
Late October 2010 Implemented with Progress PS
• Replicated From Rocklea Qld to Sydney
Jan 13th 2011 – Historic Floods
• Able to Failover to Sydney Server
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Threats to Your Business
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System Level
Logical Level
Site Level
Disk Crash
Data Corruption
Weather
Array Crash
Software Bugs
Accidents
OS Crash
User Error
Power Outage
CPU Thrash
Viral Attacks
Earthquake
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OpenEdge Replication
Continuous Availability With
Real-time replication
• Near zero-latency
• No data loss
• Guaranteed data integrity
Flexible database options
• Multiple target databases (local & Remote)
• Read-only query access (ReplicationPlus)
Automatic recovery
Easy deployment
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Replication
Restore backup to get
started
Read-Write
Application
“Mirror” txn log
over network
Active DB
Transaction
logs
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Apply Changes as
they arrive
Query
Application
“Hot--site” DB
“Hot
Failover/Failback
Terminology
After Imaging (AI) = Redo Logs
Before Image File (BI) = Primary Recovery Logs
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Overview
After Imaging is not new
After Imaging can be used for
• Point in time recovery
• Hot Site
• Replication (Log file shipping)
• Performance (Load sharing)
• Backup
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Database Recovery
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Can recover to
•
Point of failure (most common)
•
Date & time
•
Transaction number
Example:
1.
Disk with database crashes
2.
Install new disk
3.
Restore database
4.
Roll forward all AI files since last backup
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Database Recovery - Continued
Result
• No loss
• Any open transactions backed out
(normal crash recovery)
Backup + AI = Recovered database
Backup without AI =
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Lost Data !!!!
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Time Line
Tuesday
Monday
Backup
Backup
Wednesday
Thursday
Major Crash
How much can you afford to lose ?
– With AI could recover to point of failure
– Without AI you would have to restore the backup and redo Tuesday’s
work manually
– What happens if Tuesdays backup is no good?
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Benefits
Minimize loss of data
Very useful if last backup tape was faulty
Some data have no audit trail to allow
redo of the work
• Web transactions
• Phone orders
• EDI
Single point to collect all information written to the database
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Hot Site
Maintain a Hot Site in case of a major
system outage
Hot site can be in the same location or remote
System A
(Santa Clara,CA)
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System B
(Austin, TX)
Replication
Replicate a database to one or more
remote sites
One way
System A
System B
System C
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Performance (Load sharing)
Off load reporting to a second system that acts as a reporting server
Great for month-end or year-end reporting
Main Server
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Reporting Server
Backup
Instead of backing up main production database, backup a copy of the database on a
second system that has been rolled forward
System A
System B
Tape Drive
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Differences between AI & BI
BI File
• Mechanism for crash recovery
• Space is automatically reused
• Made up of clusters
• Cluster is made up of BI blocks
• BI blocks contain “notes”
AI File
• Is a copy of the BI “notes”
• Space is only reused when archived
• Sequential store of “notes” in AI blocks
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What are BI/AI Log “Notes” ?
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Each note describes a single change to a database block
There are over 50 types of notes
Basis for crash recovery mechanism
Example creating a customer row
1.
Transaction begin
2.
Indexes change
3.
Row change
4.
Transaction end
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What are BI/AI Log “Notes” ?
―Continued
CREATE customer.
ASSIGN Name = "Tony Brooks”
SalesRep = "BBB”
Address = "4900 S. Ulster”
State = "CO".
Aimage
–(rfutil
scan
<dbname> -C aimage scan verbose -a <aifile>)
code = RL_TBGN (1637)
transaction index = 303 (1638)
dbkey = 0
update counter = 0 (1639)
Trid: 303 Thu Apr 13 09:43:56 2000. (2598)
User Id: Administrator. (2599)
code = RL_SEINC (1637)
transaction index = 303 (1638)
area = 6
dbkey = 96
update counter = 40 (9016)
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What are BI/AI Log “Notes”
―Continued
code = RL_RMCR (1637)
transaction index = 303
area = 9
dbkey = 1312
code = RL_CXINS (1637)
transaction index = 303
area = 10
dbkey = 640
code = RL_CXINS (1637)
transaction index = 303
area = 10
dbkey = 512
code = RL_CXINS (1637)
transaction index = 303
area = 10
dbkey = 224
code = RL_CXINS (1637)
transaction index = 303
area = 10
dbkey = 416
code = RL_RMCHG (1637)
transaction index = 303
area = 9
dbkey = 1312
code = RL_TEND (1637)
transaction index = 303
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(1638)
update counter = 28 (9016)
(1638)
update counter = 220 (9016)
(1638)
update counter = 29 (9016)
(1638)
update counter = 1120 (9016)
(1638)
update counter = 239 (9016)
(1638)
update counter = 29 (9016)
(1638)
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Setup of AI
Backup
Add AI extents to the database
Enable AI
Enable AI Archiver
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Backup the database
Before you can enable AI you
must first backup the database
• probkup
• If using O/S backup run mark database a backed up (rfutil <dbname> -C mark backedup)
This backup is the starting point
for recovery
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Add AI extents to the database
Build a add.st file with the AI extents to add
a
a
a
a
a
d:\aitest\aitest.a1
d:\aitest\aitest.a2
d:\aitest\aitest.a3
d:\aitest\aitest.a4
d:\aitest\aitest.a5
f
f
f
f
f
10000
10000
10000
10000
10000
Run prostrct add <dbname> add.st
Formatting extents:
size
1264
1264
1264
1264
1264
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After
After
After
After
After
area name
Image Area 1
Image Area 2
Image Area 3
Image Area 4
Image Area 5
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path name
d:\aitest\aitest.a1
d:\aitest\aitest.a2
d:\aitest\aitest.a3
d:\aitest\aitest.a4
d:\aitest\aitest.a5
Enabling AI
Run rfutil <dbname> -C aimage begin
• Automatically truncates BI file
D:\aitest>rfutil aitest -C aimage begin
OpenEdge Release 10.0B03 as of Thu Sep 8 09:15:50 EDT 2005
The BI file is being automatically truncated. (1526)
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Maintaining AI extents
Status of AI Extents
Switching AI extents
Archiving full AI extent /marking it empty
What happens if all extents are full?
Other
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Status of AI extents
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AI files have three states
1.
Full - extent is ready to archive
2.
Busy - extent is currently being written to
3.
Empty - extent is empty and ready to use
4.
Locked – Replication enabled wait to be transfered
Use rfutil <dbname> -C aimage extent list to see the status of AI extents
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Status of AI extents
Example AI extent list
D:\aitest>rfutil aitest -C aimage extent list
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Extent:
Status:
Type:
Path:
Size:
Used:
Start:
Seqno:
1
Busy
Fixed Length
d:\aitest\aitest.a1
10104
1
Wed Apr 12 15:56:01 2000
1
Extent:
Status:
Type:
Path:
2
Empty
Fixed Length
d:\aitest\aitest.a2
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Switching AI extents
As a AI file fills, it will switch to the next extent (If empty)
Can force a switch by running
• rfutil <dbname> -C aimage new
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Archiving Full extents
Use a O/S copy to copy the full extent
• cp /ai1/mfgpro.a1 /aiarchive
Use rfutil <dbname> -C aimage extent full
- to return the oldest full extent
Then compress/copy to tape/rcp etc.
Mark extent as empty
• rfutil <dbname> -C aimage extent empty <aifile>
D:\aitest>rfutil aitest -C aimage extent empty
OpenEdge Release 10.0B03 as of Thu Sep 8 09:15:50 EDT 2005
Marked after-image extent d:\aitest\aitest.a1 EMPTY. (3789)
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What happens if all AI extents are Full
By default the broker will shut the database down
Start the broker with -aistall
• All update activity is suspended
• Message is written to database log file
• Resumes when AI file is marked empty
Can't switch to ai extent filename; it is full.
Backup ai extent and mark it as empty (3774)
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Checking for Empty Extents - UNIX
#!/usr/bin/ksh
AIEMPTY=`_rfutil test1 -C aimage list | grep "Empty" | wc -l`
if [ $AIEMPTY -lt 2 ]
then
echo Low number of empty AI files …
fi
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Other
Start a AIW (Enterprise DB)
-aibuffs usually 1.5 * -bibuffs (30-50)
AI blocksize to be >= to the BI blocksize
rfutil <db> -C truncate ai -aiblocksize 16
To estimate size of AI files for a day:
# of checkpoints per day * BI cluster size
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AI and Backups
Can use with AI
– Online/Offline probkup
– Offline O/S backup (tar, cpio etc)
– Offline third mirror
Probkup will NOT backup the AI files (must use O/S backup)
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AI and Backups
First part of a Progress (probkup) online/offline backup is switch AI extents
Backup will fail if no empty extent exists
17:22:41 probackup session begin for Administrator on CON:. (451)
17:22:41 Begin Physical Redo Phase at 0 . (5326)
17:22:41 Physical Redo Phase Completed at blk 0 off 419 upd 0. (7161)
17:22:41 Switched to ai extent d:\aitest\aitest.a3. (3777)
17:22:41 This is after-image file number 8 since the last AIMAGE BEGIN (3778)
17:15:19 probackup session begin for Administrator on CON:. (451)
17:15:19 Begin Physical Redo Phase at 0 . (5326)
17:15:19 Physical Redo Phase Completed at blk 0 off 419 upd 0. (7161)
17:15:19 Can't switch to after-image extent d:\aitest\aitest.a3 it is full. (3775)
17:15:19 Backup ai extent and mark it as empty. (3776)
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How to Recover with Just AI files
Restore Backup
Apply AI files in the same order as created
• rfutil <dbname> -C roll forward -a <aifile>
After the last AI file is applied, the database is considered crashed
Open the database
(start broker or single user session)
• Normal to get crash recovery messages
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Steps to setup Replication
Setup target system
Test network
Build replication properties file
proutil <dbname> -C enablesitereplication source
Do special backup
• probkup <dbname> mybackup.pbk –com -REPLTargetCreation
Restore db on target
Setup replication properties for target
proutil <dbname> -C enablesitereplication target
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Steps to setup Replication
Start the target db
• proserve <dbname> <dbparams> -DBService replagent –S <port>
Start the source db
• proserve <dbname> <dbparams> -DBService replserv -S <port>
Can be done while db is online
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What is new
Extract only the blocks in the AI file that are needed (good for coping files over
a WAN)
• rfutil db-name -C aimage extract -a ai-extent -o output-file
• In progress 9.1D09 and higher
AI file management daemon (10.1A)
• Broker startup
– -aiarcdir /usr1/aiarchives/
– -aiarcinterval 3600
– rfutil db-name -C aiarchiver enable
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OpenEdge Replication
Near real time applying of AI data
• Lag / delay depends on network speed and amount of updates
Can connect to database in a Read only Reporting mode
• With Replication Plus
• Careful with schema changes
Don’t’ skimp on the target system
Lock table size should be the same on target as source
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Best Practices
Only use fixed length AI extents
5 to 7 AI extents
Each extent at an manageable size 50-300Mb
AI extents should be on own disk for
• Reliability
• Performance
• Human error
Sometimes AI space is needed to do crash recovery (BI File grows = AI space is needed)
Have enough space for extended network outage
• Otherwise disable replication and resetup
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Best Practices - Continued
Can have 2 targets
• One local – one remote (different State / Country)
• But both need to confirm before AI space can be reused
If replicating locally make sure system has different power supply etc
Database replication is better than SAN
• SAN’s can replicate corruption
• Applying AI notes – checks data before being applied
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Best Practices - Continued
Scripts
• Switch AI files every 15min-1hour
• Archive AI full AI files
• Check for low number of empty extents
• Check how far behind the target system is
• Replication status
Switch just before (as a part of a backup)
• Month/Year end process
• Software/Hardware upgrades
Compress AI files as a part of archiving
• Copy / rsync to different system
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How to ensure Replication et al, are healthy?
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How to monitor Replication
dsrutil <db> -C monitor
Can also show you how far behind
• Target system is behind the source
Restarting after extended network issues
• dsrutil <dbname> -C restart server
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OpenEdge Management Overview
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Dashboard - My Dashboard
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