Re: Down grade from 9.21.UC2 to 7.30.UC6
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Carlson" <john_carlson@whsmithusa.com>
To: <informix-list@iiug.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Down grade from 9.21.UC2 to 7.30.UC6
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 01:23:09 +0530, "Chavan Koya"
> <chavankoya189@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Hello all,
> >
> >For some reasons i had to down grade my Informix Instance which is
running
> >on HP-UX 10.20 and 9.21.UC2 to 7.30.UC6. When i issue the command "onstat
> >-". The server is not coming up and in fast recovery mode. " Informix
> >Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC6 -- Fast Recovery -- Up 00:00:20 --
283192
> >Kbytes". Then i looked into the online log. It was showing some
AssertFail.
> >
> >Question 1. Can we initialize a server like this, for these versions ?
> >Question 2. Why the DBSPACETEMP is invalid ( in the online log message )
?
> >Question 3. Did any one does like this and successful ?
> >
> >I have initialized the server like this.
> >
> >1. Installed 7.30.UC6 in different directory.
> >2. Shutdown the instance using old ( 9.21 INFORMIXDIR) environment.
> >3. With the new environment ( 7.30 INFORMIXDIR ) try to initialize the
> >server with the command "oninit"
> >4. Back again with the old 9.21 environment i could initialize the
server.
> >
>
> Ah, but you have all those structures that were upgraded to 9.21 and
> need to be 'reverted' back to 7.30.
John,
I GOT IT.
> Look up the 'onmode -b' command in the migration guide, which can be
> found at:
> http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/6531.pdf
Thanks for the link. I will try it.
>
> Also, a reversion methodology is given . . . might be good to verify
> that your procedures are OK.
>
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