Re: How to store logical logs to disk

Posted in 1999

Mario Gunasekera — Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:52:33 +0530 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5CE59C8119994752B52C8368 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Greg, the file "logical" needs to be user and group "informix" and the permission has to be 660 (just like when using a cooked file) Regards Mario "McGregor, Greg" wrote: > All, > > Product/Server: > Informix Dynamic Server 7.30.UC2 on HP-UX 10.20 > > Problem: > I am attempting to store logical logs to disk to allow them to be backed up > with the Unix filesystem each night. I have 2 hard disks each known as > Volume Group "vg00". The / filesystem on one disk and the /users filesystem > on the second disk. Informix is loaded on the /users filesystem and there > is a third disk which is the raw device for dbspaces. I have added another > logical volume "lvlogs" to /dev/vg00 which consumes about 232 MB of space > which was free. I then mounted /dev/vg00/lvlogs onto a new filesystem > called /logs. Changed the onconfig file to point to /logs/logical, where > 'logical' is a file I created with zero bytes, and started the informix > engine. Everything come online but I attempted to backup the logical logs > to this new file and I get the error "cannot write log". I have attempted > numerous links (ln -s /logs/logical /dev/tapedev), checked permissions, > etc...but nothing seems to work. The manuals do not cover this sort of > detail and have had no luck with some of the informix sites on the web. > > Can someone please help. > > TIA > > Cheers, Greg. > > --------------------------------- > Greg McGregor > CAG SysAdmin/DBA > NDS Asia Pacific P/L > gmcgrego@vitgcdu1.telstra.com.au > 0418-645-426 (1st) > (+613) 9256-5967 (2nd) > --------------------------------- --------------5CE59C8119994752B52C8368 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mgunasek.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mario Gunasekera Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mgunasek.vcf" begin:vcard n:Gunasekera;Mario tel;fax:94 1 437749 tel;work:94 1 541285 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://lankanet.cmb-co.lk.dhl.com org:Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow<img src="http://cmbco3.cmb-co.LK.DHL.COM/smiley.gif">; adr:;;130, Glennie Street;Colombo 2;;;Sri Lanka version:2.1 email;internet:mgunasek@cmb-co.dhl.com title:Systems / DB Administrator x-mozilla-cpt:;6384 fn:Mario Gunasekera end:vcard --------------5CE59C8119994752B52C8368--