Unable to start extract

Question

Hi all,
Iam a newbie in Goldengate replication.
When iam trying to start EXTRACT process it failed with following error:
GGS ERROR 500 Could not open checkpoint file /oracle/10.4/dirchk/ELOAD01.cpe, mode 1 (error 2, No such file or directory).
GGS ERROR 190 PROCESS ABENDING.
Please help.
Thanks,
Sandy

Answer 1

user12941120 wrote:
When iam trying to start EXTRACT process it failed with following error:
GGS ERROR 500 Could not open checkpoint file /oracle/10.4/dirchk/ELOAD01.cpe, mode 1 (error 2, No such file or directory).
GGS ERROR 190 PROCESS ABENDING.Just after installing GG (i.e., after unzipping it), there's a single command that has to be run to "finish" the installation in ggsci: "create subdirs". Was this command run? That command creates the required subdirectories "dirprm", "dirchk", "dirdat", "dirdef", ...etc.
After that, you have to create the prm file (ggsci => edit param eload01), then "add" the extract (ggsci => add extract eload01 ....). The "edit param" command creates a file eload01.prm inside dirprm, the command "add extract eload01" creates a file "eload01.cpe" inside of dirchk. Then, when you start the process (ggsci => start eload01), the prm file will be read to determine what should be done, and the checkpoint file (dirchk/eload01.cpe) will be periodically updated with the progress of the process; upon restart, the process will use the files in dirchk to start from where the process left off...
Hope it helps,
-Mike