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The concept, creation, and maintenance of database shadows are discussed in detail in Chapter Creating and Maintaining a Database. gfix has utilities for operating shadows.

Activating a Shadow

The switch for activating a shadow when a database dies is –ac[tivate]. The syntax is

gfix -ac <path-to-first-shadow-volume>

Suppose the shadow’s first volume, employee.sh1, is in a directory /opt/dbshadows. You would activate it with this command:

./gfix -ac /opt/dbshadows/employee.sh1

Dropping Unavailable Shadows

The switch for dropping unavailable shadows is –k[ill]. The syntax is

gfix -k[ill] db_name

To kill unavailable shadows for employee.fdb:

./gfix -k /opt/firebird/examples/employee.fdb
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