On-Bar Interanl Subsystem Failure

We have Informix 7.30 uc 3 running on an RS/6000 with AIX 4.3.1. We are using onbar to backup to an ADSM storage manager. Periodically, when attempting to do a full backup we get the following message: 1999-05-20 07:39:47 7976 13138 /informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 -w 1999-05-20 07:39:53 7976 13138 Begin level 0 backup rootdbs. 1999-05-20 07:41:09 7976 13138 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA error has occurred: 96 If we try the backup again right after this it works fine. It may be several weeks before we see this message again. So far I haven't seen a pattern for when this error occurs. Has anyone else had this problem? Where should I be looking for a cause. Thanks for your help. Dale Forrey, DBA email: forrey@wsu.edu Information Technology FAX: (509) 335-0540 Washington State University Phone: (509) 335-7098 PO Box 641222 Pullman, WA 99164-1222 ADABAS 6.2.1 on OS/390 Natural 2.2.8 Predict 3.4.1 Informix 7.30 UC3-1 on AIX 4.3.1 Microsoft SQL Server 6.5

Dale Forrey wrote in message <7i1e9i$1vf$1@news.xmission.com>... > >We have Informix 7.30 uc 3 running on an RS/6000 with AIX 4.3.1. We are >using onbar to backup to an ADSM storage manager. Periodically, when >attempting to do a full backup we get the following message: >1999-05-20 07:39:47 7976 13138 /informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 -w >1999-05-20 07:39:53 7976 13138 Begin level 0 backup rootdbs. >1999-05-20 07:41:09 7976 13138 XBSA Error (BSAInit): An unspecified XBSA >error has occurred: 96 > >If we try the backup again right after this it works fine. It may be >several weeks before we see this message again. So far I haven't seen a >pattern for when this error occurs. Has anyone else had this problem? >Where should I be looking for a cause. Thanks for your help. > >Dale Forrey, DBA email: forrey@wsu.edu >Information Technology FAX: (509) 335-0540 >Washington State University Phone: (509) 335-7098 >PO Box 641222 >Pullman, WA 99164-1222 > >ADABAS 6.2.1 on OS/390 >Natural 2.2.8 >Predict 3.4.1 > >Informix 7.30 UC3-1 on AIX 4.3.1 >Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 I've usually seen error 96 when the problem is on the ADSM side. Did your dsierror.log file have any messages? That is where ADSM usually writes errors related to API. I don't see a 'successfully connected to storage manager' message in the clip you gave. I would look to see if you've exceeded maximum connections on the ADSM side. I don't think it is a password problem or you would have it recurring, I think. Any messages on the ADSM activity log at the same time?? Hope this helps. Doug Agnew DBA Charlotte Pipe & Foundry dagnew@charlottepipe.com ADSM 3.1.2.20 on AIX 4.1 Informix 7.24.xxx and 7.30.UC5 on HP-UX