LexBuild - Routine Procedures

Crontab is used to help on the routine procedures. In addition, manually operation is needed. They are described as follows:

• Daily:
  • crontab commands are used for the daily backup and maintenance programs.
  • It generates tables, LEXICON, and re-index starting at 4:00 AM.
  • The database is at lexBuild
  • The crontab ran on both lexBuild and lexdev (only for LEXICON)

• Monthly:
  • All daily backup data should be move to monthly data and then zip it as follows:

    shell>cd $BACKUP/Routine/LexBuild/year/
    shell>mkdir foo
    shell>mv mm_* foo
    shell>mv foo mm_yy
    

• Annually
  • Update scripts and directly for both lexsrv1 and lexdev

    cd $BACKUP/Routine/LexBuild
    mkdir yyyy
    
    cd $LB/Tools/LoadDb
    Update yyyy in GenScript and DbScript
    

  • Zip all year data

    cd $BACKUP/Routine/LexBuild
    gtar -czvf yyyy.tgz yyyy