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Stop and Start All Services Using a Single Command

There are two methods that you can use to manually stop and start the Job Engine, the Tape Engine, and the Database Engine. The first method is to click the corresponding service status icon on any Arcserve Backup manager window. The other method is to click the Stop and Start toolbar buttons on the Arcserve Backup Server Admin. However, circumstances may arise that require you to stop all Arcserve Backup services. For example, you need to apply a level two patch to Arcserve Backup.

The cstop and the cstart commands let you shut down and restart all Arcserve Backup services sequentially, based upon their dependencies to the other Arcserve Backup services. This process ensures that there is no loss of data while the services are shutting down, and that all Arcserve Backup services are running properly when your system restarts.

To stop or start all Arcserve Backup services using a single command, use the file cstop.bat or cstart.bat located in the Arcserve Backup home directory.

When you run cstop.bat, Arcserve Backup stops the services in the following order:

  1. CASTapeEngine
  2. CASJobEngine
  3. CASDbEngine
  4. CASMessageEngine
  5. CASDiscovery
  6. CasUnivDomainSvr
  7. CasSvcControlSvr
  8. CASportmap
  9. Alert Notification Server

When you run cstart.bat, Arcserve Backup starts the services in the following order:

  1. Alert Notification Server
  2. CASDiscovery
  3. CASportmap
  4. CasSvcControlSvr
  5. CasUnivDomainSvr
  6. CASDbEngine
  7. CASMessageEngine
  8. CASTapeEngine
  9. CASJobEngine

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Start and Stop Servers and Services from the DOS Prompt