Sun Java System Calendar Server 6 2005Q4 Administration Guide

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–16 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.

maxdays

"7"

Maximum 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.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

"120"

Time in seconds between opening of new transaction logs. 

alarm.msgalarmnoticercpt

"root@

localhost"

Email address of the administrator to notify when necessary. 

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.