RE: Data Erased-- Please help

I am assuming that you do not have any backups, due to your onconfig file. So... If you haven't done anything since re-initializing, then your data is not gone, it is simply unreachable. There is a method for recovering it, but it is not easy, and it will require a copy of your schema(s). If you don't have a great deal of Informix knowledge, and the data is really important, then you might want to bring in someone (perhaps one of your professors) to accomplish the following. It looks like you have followed the advise of someone, and used symbolic links for your dbspaces. This will help. What you need to do, is point your dbspace links to different, but preferably identical devices somewhere else. Then rebuild your dbspaces in the same order as originally. Next, recreate your schema. Finally point your links back to the original dbspaces. With any luck, your data will still be there. This is analogous to the old standard engine trick of moving old *.dbs and *.idx files over top of new ones. If this database is not mission critical, it's probably not worth the effort (and possible expense of bringing in a consultant). Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: Raj [mailto:r411@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:36 AM Posted To: informix Conversation: Data Erased-- Please help Subject: Re: Data Erased-- Please help I guess I deserved that from "Obnoxio the clown". But in my defense, I am just an intern, who is a sophmore in college and started working on informix 5 weeks ago. Can someone please tell me how to restore the data? Thanks, Raj "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8l7568$p4j$1@news.xmission.com... > > From: "Raj" <r411@hotmail.com> > > > I am trying to make a temp db space using the command onspaces -d > >tempdbs1 -t -p /usasdb/tempdbs1 -o 8 -s 500000. It came back with > >memory segment fault, and produced a core dump and said shared memory not > >initialized. Then I used onmonitor and it came back saying I have to > >initilizae diskspace. I said yes, and all of my data was gone. How can I > >get the data back? I am using coldfusion as a front end and it cannot find > >the data source. > > A poor workman always blames his tools. Judging by your onconfig, your > backups are probably also worth a hat full of dandruff. > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >