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Deleting systems

The deletion of a system can have various reasons.

This could, for example, be a change of the storage-system, a cancellation of the storage space occupied by a client etc.

Having marked a system for deletion in the d.ecs storage manager administration, the program decssmdelsys.exe must be called.

This tool logs all references of the system to be deleted in a logfile. On exceeding a size of 50 MB a new log-file is created. The log-files are then compressed and written to the new storage system. Then all system references of the respective system are deleted from the database. The deletion is performed in blocks of 1000 records.

The program must be started as follows:

decssmdelsys.exe <Path to the configuration file of the d.ecs storage manager>

Example:
decssmdelsys.exe c:\decs\decsstoragemanager\configs\D3A.ini

Note

If the execution of the program decssmdelsys.exe is aborted, be it manually or through an interrupted network connection, then the process can be continued at the same point again with a later restart.

The program only deletes the reference entries of a system from the database. No data is removed from the storage system.

The deletion of data from the storage system must either be triggered before the system deletion from d.3/ecspand and then be executed by the d.ecs storage manager or via the administrative interface of the storage system if this provides a delete function.

Note that deleting a large number of records may result in a large number of entries in the log files of the database used.