Robelle Extend Software and Disaster Recovery

We provide a simple to use program to control your Robelle software and Licensing issues. The extend program also allows you to handle a disaster situation on both MPE and HP-UX.

One of our tech support engineers also may have asked you to download the latest version to provide new functionality.

Please print off and follow the instructions below if this is the case.

The ability to do Disaster recovery on HP-UX was not available until Extend version 4.8. Please see the Download and detailed installation instructions below.

Links for Downloading

Here is a summary of the ftp links for downloading Extend:

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How do I install Extend?

HP-UX Upload and Install

If you Click on the link above and save the copy of the extend program on your PC you should be able to install easily onto your HP-UX box using the following steps:

Upload/Install to your HP-UX box

These instructions assume you have ftp access to your HP-UX server:

From your PC open a dos window and upload to you HP-UX machine.

C:\>ftp myhpux.company.com
220 myhpux FTP server (Version 1.7.212.3 Mon Jul 10 14:16:28 GMT 2000) ready.
User (myhpux.company.com:(none)): root
331 Password required for root.
Password:
230 User root logged in.
ftp> cd /opt/robelle/bin
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put extend.hpux.bin extend
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

Insure the permissions are correct they should be as follows:

-r-xr-xr-x   1 root       sys         878898 Mar 14 11:57 extend

If the permissions are incorrect you can fix them with the chmod command
```
chmod 555 extend
```

Upload/Install to your MPE box (binary format)

These instructions assume you have ftp access to your MPE server:

From your PC open a dos window and upload to you MPE machine.

C:\>ftp mympe.company.com
User (mympe.company.com:(none)): mgr.robelle,pub
230 User root logged in.
ftp> binary
200 Type set to I.
ftp> put extend.mpe.bin extend;REC=128,1,F,BINARY;DISC=2845,1;CODE=1029
ftp> quit
221 Goodbye.

Upload/Install to your MPE box (Reflection Labels)

Sign on using Reflection to mgr.robelle,pub
Use the Reflection File Transfer feature (Alt+F+T)
Upload to your MPE box, insure you use Reflection Labels format and call the file on the host side extend.

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How do I do a disaster?

Here is a quick guide to running disaster recovery on each platform as mentioned. You can only do a disaster recovery once. On MPE the steps are:

Sign on as mgr.robelle,pub
stream robelle.job.robelle
run extend.pub,disaster

On HP-UX the steps are:

Sign on as root
cd /opt/robelle/bin
./extend -d

The ability to do a disaster on HP-UX is only available in Extend 4.8 or higher. See the download Extend instructions above to get the latest version of Extend.

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