Backing up the View database before executing the OLOAD or BLOAD functions.

Products

• Deliver
• View

Issue/Introduction

Customer applied View maintenance and planning to run the OLOAD and BLOAD tasks on the View databases. 

Would like to know if it is necessary to run a SARDBASE UNLOAD to back up the database files before running the OLOAD and BLOAD functions.

Resolution

Technically, since the OLOAD and BLOAD processes specifically do not affect the INDEX portion of the database and only affect a small area of the DATA portion (and no actual report data), it would not necessarily to run an UNLOAD before running the OLOAD or BLOAD.

Additional Information

If you forget to put any "user modified" panels or banner page members into the maintenance library before running the OLOAD or BLOAD, and something that you currently have in production gets overlaid, all you would need to do is copy the user modified member into the appropriate maintenance library and re-run the OLOAD or BLOAD function to put the correct panel or banner page member back in place on the database.