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Re: onbar hangs

Posted in 2003

Doug McAllister — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

How about something simple like maybe the storage manager is waiting for a tape mount? When the onbar is hanging, don't just kill it but go into your storage manager and see what it thinks is happening. "rkusenet" <rkusenet@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:bgro1s$rbvfo$1@ID-75254.news.uni-berlin.de... > IDS 9.21.UC4 > Solaris 2.6 > > EDS takes our backup using onbar. What we have observed is that, > quite frequently onbar hangs. By hangs it means, onbar processes > keep running indefinitely. Since the backup is taken daily, all > subsequent backups also hang until the earlier on is killed. > > I have a script to look for onbar process 15 hours after it > starts, and if it finds one, it sends a mail as follows:- > > ========================================= > onbar is still running on flx10 > root 15709 15703 0 00:50:14 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /opt/informix/bin/onbar -b -L 0 > root 15878 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 > root 15879 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 > root 15873 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 > root 15872 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 > root 15871 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 > root 15874 15711 0 00:51:14 ? 0:00 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 > root 15711 15709 0 00:50:14 ? 0:01 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 > ========================================= > > The ssyadmin then kills the processes indicated above. > > Once they kill the client process, we get this message in online.log > ======================================= > 15:04:10 Archive on logs02 ABORTED. > 15:04:10 Aborted by client. > 15:04:10 Archive on logs03 ABORTED. > 15:04:10 Aborted by client. > 15:04:10 Archive on logs04 ABORTED. > 15:04:10 Aborted by client. > 15:04:10 Archive on physdbs ABORTED. > 15:04:10 Aborted by client. > 15:04:11 Archive on fdbs04 ABORTED. > 15:04:11 Aborted by client. > 15:04:11 Archive on gdbs01 ABORTED. > 15:04:11 Aborted by client. > =======================================> In other words, the backup is useless. > > Earlier on, it use to be once/twice a month. Now it is once/twice a week. > What could be wrong with it. Why does onbar hang for 15 hours without doing > anything. > > > >

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