RE: Primary Chunk down - can it be reactivated?
In this kind of instance, Informix Tech support can __sometimes__ dial in
and mark a chunk as "UP".
Call tech support on this one. I have seen them be both successful and
unsuccessful on this.
Worst case scenario: they say no and you're no worse off than you are now.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Spitz [SMTP:Richard.Spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de]
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 11:25 AM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Primary Chunk down - can it be reactivated?
>
> Hi Informixers,
>
> due to a disk failure (the tech says it's temporary but I haven't had
> the chance to thourougly test that yet) my IDS test instance went down
> today with the following message:
>
> 13:14:03 Assert Failed: I/O error, Primary Chunk '/dev/online_root' --> Offline
> 13:14:03 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC6
>
> 13:14:03 Who: Session(1, informix@OIT15X, 0, 0)>
> Thread(7, main_loop(), 0, 1)
>
> File: rsbuff.c Line: 3571
>
> 13:14:03 Results: Chunk is now unusable
>
> 13:14:03 Action: Repair and restore from mirror or archive>
> Since this is a development server only, there are no recent backups
> available. I will get a new disk tomorrow, but to save me some work I'd
> like to reactivate the system to at least backup the data before the
> disk is exchanged. Is it possible to reactivate this chunk or am I out of
> luck?
>
> FYI, the IDS instance has two DBS: /dev/online_root and /dev/online_daten,
> each consisting of only one chunk, which are raw partitions residing
> on the same disk. "rootdbs" is in online_root, while the data are in
> online_daten. If I cannot reactivate the rootdbs chunk, is there a way
> to at least recover the data dbs? Platform is Siemens Reliant UNIX 5.43C20
> on a Siemens RM400-330.
>
> Regards, Richard
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