RE: Backups terminated by client

May be the backup tape was bad? Did you check the tape? Uday -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd AJ Wilson [mailto:lwilson@harriscomputer.com] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 9:20 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Backups terminated by client Hi All, Curious to know what causes this error. In the online log files they say that the archives where aborted by client. Is there something that happens on the database end that would cause an archive to abort from the client. I know that if someone kills the ontape process which only user informix or root can do then I know that it will abort the archive obviously. Is there something that I am missing from this? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lloyd AJ Wilson.

There is nothing wrong with the tape ... because if I run the level 0 backup off hours I have no problems what so ever with the tape. Normally, there is a backup that runs at noon when noone is in the office to use the database. Our backups normally take around 1.5 hours to 2.0 hours to complete. It could be that when users get back from their lunch and login to the database and put some load on it ... this could be causing some problems (excess load at one time) .... but I know that I never have a problem running a backup when users are on the system. I also run one at night for those who say run a backup at night to solve your problem. I do this because we do a lot of testing with our databases and run a lot of conversions so I do this so that we have good backups and not to much data has been lost from the deal. I am running IDS7.3UC5 on Linux 5.2 ... I have yet to upgrade ... but I don't think that this was a problem with this version. For your info ... we run our backups through a cron ... Please do not respond with an upgrade and everything will be fixed kind of deal because I would like to know what the cause of the problem ... if anyone knows what it is. If this is a bug with this version then I know I need to upgrade ... but I don't think that this is a version problem. I could be wrong though. Thanks, Lloyd. Marichamy, Udaykumar wrote in message <7rtlub$sen$1@news.xmission.com>... > >May be the backup tape was bad? Did you check the tape? > >Uday > >-----Original Message----- >From: Lloyd AJ Wilson [mailto:lwilson@harriscomputer.com] >Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 9:20 AM >To: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Backups terminated by client > > >Hi All, > >Curious to know what causes this error. In the online log files they say >that the archives where aborted by client. Is there something that happens >on the database end that would cause an archive to abort from the client. I >know that if someone kills the ontape process which only user informix or >root can do then I know that it will abort the archive obviously. > >Is there something that I am missing from this? > >Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, > >Lloyd AJ Wilson. >

I'm not sure if IDS/LE is any different than its HPUX cousins, but a lot of updating on the system could cause problems with ontape that would cause it to abort. When ontape is archiving, any updated pages are stored in the temp space as defined by ONCONFIG. If this temp space fills up, it will abort your backup. John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA Lloyd AJ Wilson wrote: > > There is nothing wrong with the tape ... because if I run the level 0 backup > off hours I have no problems what so ever with the tape. > > Normally, there is a backup that runs at noon when noone is in the office to > use the database. Our backups normally take around 1.5 hours to 2.0 hours > to complete. > > It could be that when users get back from their lunch and login to the > database and put some load on it ... this could be causing some problems > (excess load at one time) .... but I know that I never have a problem > running a backup when users are on the system. I also run one at night for > those who say run a backup at night to solve your problem. I do this > because we do a lot of testing with our databases and run a lot of > conversions so I do this so that we have good backups and not to much data > has been lost from the deal. > > I am running IDS7.3UC5 on Linux 5.2 ... I have yet to upgrade ... but I > don't think that this was a problem with this version. For your info ... we > run our backups through a cron ... Please do not respond with an upgrade and > everything will be fixed kind of deal because I would like to know what the > cause of the problem ... if anyone knows what it is. If this is a bug with > this version then I know I need to upgrade ... but I don't think that this > is a version problem. I could be wrong though. > > Thanks, > > Lloyd. > > Marichamy, Udaykumar wrote in message <7rtlub$sen$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > >May be the backup tape was bad? Did you check the tape? > > > >Uday > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Lloyd AJ Wilson [mailto:lwilson@harriscomputer.com] > >Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 9:20 AM > >To: informix-list@iiug.org > >Subject: Backups terminated by client > > > > > >Hi All, > > > >Curious to know what causes this error. In the online log files they say > >that the archives where aborted by client. Is there something that happens > >on the database end that would cause an archive to abort from the client. > I > >know that if someone kills the ontape process which only user informix or > >root can do then I know that it will abort the archive obviously. > > > >Is there something that I am missing from this? > > > >Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Lloyd AJ Wilson. > >