Extracts the active blocks of the specified AI extent and writes them to an output file.

Syntax

rfutil db-name -C aimage extract -a ai-extent -o output-file

Parameters

db-name

Specifies the database you are using.

-a ai-extent

Identifies the AI file containing the blocks to be extracted. The extent must be marked as full or locked.

-o output-file

Specifies the file to hold the extracted blocks.

Notes

• Extracting blocks from an AI extent is only beneficial for fixed length extents. There will be minimal savings of disk space when extracting blocks from a variable length extent.
• See Manage after-imaging files for more information on extracting AI blocks from an extent.