Re: Further on "How to bring a dbspace down" and OnBar

In article <338d9962.10529946@news>, Melvin Mariney <melvin.mariney2@bri dge.bellsouth.com> writes >ibogorad@lhr-sys.dhl.com wrote: > >> >>Guys, >> >>I have posted the original article here a couple of days ago. >>The problem was that in Online 7.22 OnBar does not perform incremental (warm) >>restore of a dbspace if one is not marked offline. >> >>I have logged a call with Informix on this, and the response was that this is >>known bug #71720 . No fix available yet. >> >>Posting this just to let you in case you'd be playing with OnBar as well. > > >We had this same problem when we started testing OnBar under 7.2. >However, we did get a workaround from Informix Tech. Supt. There's an >environmental variable called 'ARCHIVE_TEST=Y' that you can set that >will allow you restore any dbspace that is not marked as down using >the 'onbar -r dbspacename' command. We have used it and it works. Hope >this helps you. Thanks - I wondered what this string was in the oninit program Dave wonders what LV_LOCKING_TEST (?) means... > >-- > >Melvin Mariney, Informix DBA >e-mail: melvin.mariney2@bridge.bellsouth.com -- David Williams