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  1. Preface
  2. Installation Overview
  3. Before You Install
  4. Installing Fast Clone
  5. After You Install
  6. Uninstalling Fast Clone
  7. Installed Fast Clone Directories and Files

Installation Guide

Installation Guide

Fast Clone Directories and Files

Fast Clone Directories and Files

After you complete installation, verify that the Fast Clone root directory and subdirectories contain the expected files.

Subdirectories

The following subdirectories appear under the Fast Clone root directory that you created at installation:
ddl
Contains some data type mappings for creating DDL statements. Use these files only at the direction of Informatica Global Customer Support.
dd
On Linux and UNIX, contains the DataDirect ODBC driver libraries.
doc
Contains Fast Clone documentation, including the release notes.
lib
Contains Java archive (.jar) files for the Fast Clone Console, including the JDBC drivers that the Fast Clone Console uses to optionally connect to target databases.
logs
Contains logs of Fast Clone Console error and diagnostic information.
support
Contains runtime libraries that Fast Clone uses.
uiconf
Contains global defaults for configuration files, and data type mapping and conversion rules.

Executables and Script Files

The following files are in the Fast Clone root directory. The .sh files occur on Linux or UNIX, and the .cmd and .exe files occur on Windows.
cmd_unload_example.sh or cmd_unload_example.cmd
An example of how to run Fast Clone from the command line. The command syntax includes Fast Clone configuration parameters.
Fast Clone or FastReader.exe
The Fast Clone engine for bulk data movement that is started from the unload.sh or unload.cmd file. You can also run it from the command line interface.
FastReaderTD.exe
The Fast Clone engine with the optional DataStreamer component that streams bulk data to a Teradata or Greenplum target.
gui.sh or gui.cmd
Runs the Fast Clone Console.
install_server.cmd
Installs the optional Fast Clone Server component as a Windows service.
Qzip or Qzip.exe
Runs the Fast Clone decompression utility. Use this utility on unloaded data that was compressed with a
high-speed
compression routine of type QZIP during unload processing.
server.sh or start_server.cmd
Starts the Fast Clone Server component.
On Linux or UNIX, server.sh starts the Fast Clone Server as a background process. On Windows, start_server.cmd starts the Fast Clone Server as a Windows service.
stop_server.cmd
Stops the Fast Clone Server component on Windows.
On Linux or UNIX, you can use the
kill -9
pid
command to stop the Fast Clone Server process.
unload.sh or unload.cmd
Sets the Fast Clone environment to the current directory. Then starts the Fast Clone executable, FastReader or FastReader.exe, based on the settings in the unload.ini configuration file to perform unload processing.
uninstall_server.cmd
Uninstalls the Fast Clone Server on Windows.

Other Files

FastClone.key
Contains the Fast Clone license key that you enter manually or from the Fast Clone Console.
server.ini
Contains configuration parameters for the optional Fast Clone Server component.
unload.ini
Contains configuration parameters for Fast Clone. This file is not present at installation completion. It appears after you configure a bulk data movement job in the Fast Clone Console.

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