Removing the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository

Last published : Jun 11, 2026
After removing the product, you can remove the SFDB repository file and any backups.
Removing the SFDB repository file disables the SFDB tools.
To remove the SFDB repository
  1. Identify the SFDB repositories created on the host.
Oracle:
\# cat /var/vx/vxdba/rep_loc{
   "sfae_rept_version" : 1,
   "oracle" : {
      "SFAEDB" : {
         "location" : "/data/sfaedb/.sfae",
         "old_location" : "",
         "alias" : [
            "sfaedb"
         ]
      }
   }
}
  1. Remove the directory identified by the location key.
Oracle:
\# rm -rf /data/sfaedb/.sfae
DB2 9.5 and 9.7:
\# rm -rf /db2data/db2inst1/NODE0000/SQL00001/.sfae
DB2 10.1 and 10.5:
\# rm -rf /db2data/db2inst1/NODE0000/SQL00001/MEMBER0000/.sfae
  1. Remove the repository location file.
\# rm -rf /var/vx/vxdba/rep_loc
This completes the removal of the SFDB repository.