Two questions

Hi 1) Is it possible to use onbar as a backup/restore solution for Informix Server instances that back up logical logs to /dev/null? I was under the impression that it is mandatory to save logical logs if onbar is to be used because logical recovery cannot be skipped with onbar. On the contrary, Informix techies tell me that if LTAPEDEV is set to /dev/null, onbar will ignore logical log backup/restore. Is this true?? 2) Anybody out there running both Informix IDS2000 (64 bit) and IDS.7.30.FC7 on same Unix server? I want to know if there are any issues with installing and running both these versions on the same server. We have HP-UX 11 on a V Class Server. Thanks, Shehla

Hi, "Arshad, Shehla" wrote: > > Hi > > 1) Is it possible to use onbar as a backup/restore solution for Informix > Server instances that back up logical logs to /dev/null? > > I was under the impression that it is mandatory to save logical logs if > onbar is to be used because logical recovery cannot be skipped with onbar. > On the contrary, Informix techies tell me that if LTAPEDEV is set to > /dev/null, onbar will ignore logical log backup/restore. Is this true?? Not completely true: If you set LTAPEDEV to /dev/null and reboot Informix instance, all logical logs will marked "backed up", immediately after completing the logical log. But an alarm is always triggerd. So, you have to set ONCONFIG.ALARMPROGRAM to "$INFORMIXDIR/etc/nolog.sh". Otherwise, onbar will be started and it will return with an error code. > > 2) Anybody out there running both Informix IDS2000 (64 bit) and IDS.7.30.FC7 > on same Unix server? I want to know if there are any issues with installing > and running both these versions on the same server. We have HP-UX 11 on a V > Class Server. Not me, but I have heard about problems with /usr/lib. Some releases of an 7.30 installed their libs to /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib/..64... If you have such a version you will get problems with your processes. Wile