Creating and configuring a remote stand-alone secondary server for Windows

Follow these steps to create and configure a remote stand-alone secondary (RSS) server that synchronizes with a primary server.

Before you begin

When installing an additional Windows server, on the Informix Database Server Information dialog box, do not select the Create database server option.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that the primary server and the RSS server can connect to each other.

    These two servers must be configured to use a DNS server.

  2. Set up the trusted environment by creating the hosts.equiv file:

    C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts.equiv

    For detailed steps, see Setting Up the Trusted Environment and The hosts.equiv file on the IBM® Informix® 11.50 information center.

  3. On the primary server host, create a folder on the file system, and then share it.

    For example, if the primary server host name is prod, create a folder C:\export_dir, and then share the folder.

    Ensure that the UNC Path is:

    \\prod\export_dir

  4. Use the ccmsrv rss_export command to export the data on the primary server so that you can create the RSS server.

    For example, in CM Command Prompt, run the following command to export the database on the primary server:

    $ ccmsrv rss_export /t \\prod\export_dir /r prod2

    In this example, prod is the short name of the primary server host, and prod2 is the short name of the RSS server host.

  5. On the RSS server host, run the ccmsrv rss_create command to create the RSS server.

    For example, in CM Command Prompt, run the following command to export the database on the primary server:

    $ ccmsrv rss_create /f \\prod\export_dir /p prod

    In this example, prod is the short name of the primary server host.


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