Sun Java System Calendar Server 6.3 Administration Guide

E.2.20 Automatic Backups of the Calendar Database

The following table lists the parameters used by the automatic backup process (csstored), gives the default value where available, and describes the ics.conf parameter.

Table E–20 ics.conf Parameters Used by the Automatic Backup Process

Parameter  

Default Value  

Description  

logfile.store.logname

defaultstore.log

Name of the log file. 

logfile.logdir

"."

Path to the log directory. 

caldb.berkeleydb.homedir.

path

none 

Path to live database. 

caldb.berkeleydb.archive.

path

none 

Path to the archive backup. 

caldb.berkeleydb.hotbackup.

path

none 

Path to the hot backup. 

caldb.berkeleydb.archive.

enable

"yes"

Enable/disable automatic archive backups. 

caldb.berkeleydb.hotbackup.

enable

"yes"

Enable/disable automatic hot backups. 

caldb.berkeleydb.hotbackup.

mindays

"3"

Minimum number of hot backup copies kept on disk. 

caldb.berkeleydb.hotbackup.

threshold

"70"

Percentage of used disk space that triggers purging of old hot backup copies. 

caldb.berkeleydb.archive.

interval

"86400"

Interval in seconds between backups. Default is 24 hours, which is 86400 seconds. 

caldb.berkeleydb.archive.

mindays

"3"

Minimum number of archive backup copies kept on disk. 

caldb.berkeleydb.archive.

maxdays

"7"

Maximum number of archive backup copies kept on disk. 

caldb.berkeleydb.archive.

threshold

"70"

Percentage of used disk space that triggers purging of old archive backup copies. 

caldb.berkeleydb.

circularlogging

"yes"

Enables/disables management of the number of, and disk space occupied by, backup copies. 

caldb.berkeleydb.archive.

interval

"86400"

Time in seconds between backups. 

The default is 24 hours, or 86400 seconds. 

service.store.enable

(not included in ics.conf file)

"yes"

Enables csstored to be started by start-cal. Must be added to the ics.conf file, set to "no", if you want to disable csstored from being started by start-cal.