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I am trying to setup a script that will run an online backup of 2
databases that are running on Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and
progress version 9.1a05. I already know that the starting version of
progress that should be used with Windows server 2003 is progress
version 9.1d06. I am not able at this moment to upgrade the version of
progress I am using. Now when I go to the command line and run proutil
on these two databases it is telling me that the databases are running
in multi-user mode. Now when I run the probkup online command it is
telling me that there is no server running for these databases. Now I
know that the databases are running. Now the programs that use these
databases are connecting to these databases through a pf file on a
network drive. Now the ini file that is setting up the propath is on
the network drive as well. This ini file is also setting the dlc to a
directory that is on the network drive. Now my question is should the
script that is going to backup the database be running off the network
drive or on the computer where the databases are located which are on
the machine that I have access to. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

"chefsride" <k.harnden@att.net> wrote in news:1132599307.636931.226810
@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> I am trying to setup a script that will run an online backup of 2
> databases that are running on Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and
> progress version 9.1a05. I already know that the starting version of
> progress that should be used with Windows server 2003 is progress
> version 9.1d06. I am not able at this moment to upgrade the version of
> progress I am using. Now when I go to the command line and run proutil
> on these two databases it is telling me that the databases are running
> in multi-user mode. Now when I run the probkup online command it is
> telling me that there is no server running for these databases. Now I
> know that the databases are running. Now the programs that use these
> databases are connecting to these databases through a pf file on a
> network drive. Now the ini file that is setting up the propath is on
> the network drive as well. This ini file is also setting the dlc to a
> directory that is on the network drive. Now my question is should the
> script that is going to backup the database be running off the network
> drive or on the computer where the databases are located which are on
> the machine that I have access to. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>

On the machine where the databases are running is the best bet. The
problem with the 'no server for database...' could be related to
permissions. Are you using the ProControl tool for controlling thses
databases?? If so, make sure you have the ACCESS=all in the environment
tab (case is important, IIRC)..

I that is not the issue, is the probkup command using the full path to
the database?

HTH

Kevin

In article <1132599307.636931.226810@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
"chefsride" <k.harnden@att.net> wrote:

> I am trying to setup a script that will run an online backup of 2
> databases that are running on Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and
> progress version 9.1a05. I already know that the starting version of
> progress that should be used with Windows server 2003 is progress
> version 9.1d06. I am not able at this moment to upgrade the version of
> progress I am using. Now when I go to the command line and run proutil
> on these two databases it is telling me that the databases are running
> in multi-user mode. Now when I run the probkup online command it is
> telling me that there is no server running for these databases. Now I
> know that the databases are running. Now the programs that use these
> databases are connecting to these databases through a pf file on a
> network drive. Now the ini file that is setting up the propath is on
> the network drive as well. This ini file is also setting the dlc to a
> directory that is on the network drive. Now my question is should the
> script that is going to backup the database be running off the network
> drive or on the computer where the databases are located which are on
> the machine that I have access to. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.


You need to run the script on the machine that is running the database
servers.

It attempts to enter into the shared memory area of the server to backup
dirty buffers that have committed transactions but not yet have been
written to disk.

Of course, if the program isn't on the same machine, then it can't
really enter it's shared memory in a convenient manner, eh?

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Ok well I know permissions is not a problem. The only thing that is
running in procontrol is an odbc driver. The databases are being
started on system startup by a script that uses the proserve command to
run .pf files to start the two databases. I know that the databases are
started and running. Now I just need to figure out how to run an online
backup on them.