To Rebuild the Calendar Databases (caldb) - No GSE

To recover a damaged calendar database (caldb), use the csdb utility rebuild command. The rebuild command scans all of the calendar databases for corruption. If the rebuild command finds an inconsistency, it generates a rebuilt calendar database (.db files) in the cal_svr_base/SUNWics5/cal/sbin/rebuild_db directory.

The rebuild command can generate a lot of information, so consider redirecting all output, including stdout and stderr, to a file.

In the instructions that follow, the rebuild command does not rebuild the group scheduling engine (GSE) database.

To rebuild the calendar databases without the GSE database:

1. Log in as a user who has administration rights to the system where Calendar Server is installed.

2. Stop Calendar Server.

3. Make a copy of your calendar database, if you haven’t already done so. Copy the database (.db) files and the log (log.*) files. You don’t need to copy any share (__db.*) files.

4. Change to the cal_svr_base/SUNWics5/cal/sbin directory. For example, on Solaris Operating Systems, enter:

   cd /opt/SUNWics5/cal/sbin

   If disk space is a problem for the sbin directory, run the rebuild command in a different directory.

5. Run the rebuild command on the copy of your calendar database:

   ./csdb rebuild /tmp/db /tmp/

   If you don’t specify a database directory, rebuild uses the database in the current directory. In the preceding example, the /tmp/ parameter specifies the destination directory for the rebuilt database.

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   Note –

   Always rebuild your calendar database using the latest backup copy.

   However, if you have experienced a significant loss of data and you have periodically backed up your database and have more than one copy available, rebuild from the latest copy to the oldest one. (The only drawback is that calendar components that were deleted will reappear in the rebuilt database.)

   For example, if you have three sets of backup calendar database files in directories db_0601, db_0615, and db_0629, run the rebuild command in the following sequence:

   1. ./csdb rebuild db_0629

      Then check for corruption. If this backup copy is also corrupt, then run rebuild on the next backup copy.

   2. ./csdb rebuild db_0615

      Then check for corruption. If this backup copy is also corrupt, then run rebuild on the next backup copy.

   3. ./csdb rebuild db_0601

      ... etc.

   The rebuild command writes the rebuilt database to the cal_svr_base/SUNWics5/cal/sbin/rebuild_db directory.

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6. When rebuild has finished, review the output in the rebuild.out file. If the rebuild was successful, the last line in the rebuild.out file should be:

   Calendar database has been rebuilt

7. After you have verified that rebuild was successful, copy the rebuilt database (.db) files from the rebuild_db directory to your production database.

8. If you have any share (__db.*) files from the corrupted database, move them to another directory.

9. Restart Calendar Server.