Re: Emergemcy Chunks Offline - tbzero utility

> > rridley@sin-apit.DHL.COM (Richard Ridley) writes: > > >We have had this problem a number of times, and, after trying to > >persuade Informix to release the tbzero utility to us, possibly with > >some training, Corporate HQ of Informix said no. > > I think Informix's position on the tbzero utility and the use thereof by the > "end user" (ie, system/DB administrator) community is unreasonable. This > weekend a disk crashed on a multi-gigabyte DSS system running Informix Online > v5.02. Of course, the disk crashed while the latest backup was still running. [ Stuff Deleted] > > -Bill > jaegerwl@wckn.dorm.clarkson.edu > The moaning that you people are doing is nothing compared to what would happen if Informix made tbzero available. tbzero has the capability to bring a very corrupt system online while you may think that tbzero magically fixed your original problem (It didn't). The bottom line is that if your system went offline, it did so for a reason and if you can't isolate and fix the original problem tbzero is only going to make things worse. Informix policy here is on the money. Bill should restore from his last backup. period. Michael