RE: Informix expert needed in Southern California
also, onbar backups can be validated by 'onbar -v' command
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org
[mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Gentsch, Sam
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 4:10 PM
To: Neil Truby; informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: RE: Informix expert needed in Southern California
As odd as it may sound, I often ask my customers if they have checked on
their archives lately.
onstat -g arc and archecker are wonderful things.
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Truby [mailto:neil.truby@ardenta.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 12:04 PM
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Informix expert needed in Southern California
"Angela Byars" <abyars@cmhhospital.org> wrote in message
news:b8077018.0406180942.5b1ee6f7@posting.google.com...
> We have a legacy system consisting of an SCO UNIX Sun scan station
> with an optical drive, Novell Netware network system, DOS 6.2 host PC,
> and an SCO UNIX Informix database server. There are 244 optical disks
> containing approximately 4.4 million single page ".img" (scanned
> images) files. The Informix database contains all of the patient
> records along with the file names of each of the scanned images. We've
> been told that the two key areas (prime space and mirror space) of the
> Informix database are corrupted making the data unrecoverable without
> a restore from a backup. A backup of the database does not exist. Does
> anyone know of any utilities that could possibly recover the database?
> We need 1473 children's records (in a flat file comma delimited
> format) and the associated scanned images (in multi-page ".tif"
> format) to be extracted from this system.
>
I'm sorry to make light of your plight, Ange, but it constatntly takes
my
breath away how on earth do people *get* into such a position.
We had a Informix site recently, already in administration, who called
up
desperately trying to retrieve their data. They too had no back-up. We
couldn't rcover their data, and I've since read that they've gone bust.
Worry not though, dear reader, as they were in admin we made them pay
for
our time up front by credit card.
I sound unsympathetic, don't I? I hope someone sorts you out.
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