Re: Run 'onunload' on an HDR secondary?

"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:mailman.117.1153145197.873.informix-list@iiug.org... > bozon wrote: >> Interesting, we were wondering if you could run ontape on the secondary >> to back up the database but I have been so busy I haven't been able to >> investigate or test it. (I just realized it would probably only take a >> minute to check the c.d.i archives, but then I couldn't implement it >> for 6 months anyway.) > <SNIP> > Yes you can run ontape on the secondary to get a consistent archive of the > servers. The operation would not block or otherwise affect concurrent > updates from the primary except as any resource usage on the machine and > server would. The archive would be restorable onto either host. Really? How can this be? The replicate, sitting there as it is waiting eitther for further transactions or fast recovery, may be physically consistent but how can it be logically consistent? If I try it it doesn't work, just as I'd expect: $ onstat -g dri IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.FC3 -- Read-Only (Sec) -- Up 22 days 18:08:36 -- 3347456 Kbytes Data Replication: Type State Paired server Last DR CKPT (id/pg) secondary on ifx_tcp_1_leeds 10616 / 3562 DRINTERVAL 30 DRTIMEOUT 30 DRAUTO 0 DRLOSTFOUND /opt/informix/dbspaces1/dr.lostfound DRIDXAUTO 1 $ ontape -sServer is in an incompatible state or user authentication failed. Program over.