Re: "onstat -g arc" reporting backup levels

I believe since the 5.X days, Informix recorded the last two backups on page 10 and 11 (?) of the reserve pages. Your $INFORMIXDIR/etc/ixbar.<SERVERNUM> file should show more backups, as well as your sysutils database. Hope this information helps. Brice Avila Minneapolis, Minnesota c-eriks@algonet.se (Christian Eriksson) wrote in message news:<d0d6f67c.0305310419.631b5e30@posting.google.com>... > Below is the output from "onstat -g arc" (Informix 7.31 on AIX). Can > anyone tell me why it's interesting to know that I have an older > incremental backup than my full backup? You can see that dbspaces > atg29 and atg01 have a full backup from May 30 and a incremental > backup from May 29. The same was reported for the rootdbs before I did > a "onbar -b -L 0" (The backup process is currently backing up atg29 > and atg01). I can't understand why the scheduled full backup from May > 30 didn't clear the incremental backup entries as the command line > invoking of "onbar -b -L 0" just did for the rootdbs. > > Dbspaces - Archive Status > name number level date log log-posit > rootdbs 1 0 05/31/2003.13:53 592 0x15f018 > atg29 3 0 05/30/2003.08:12 553 0x105018 > 1 05/29/2003.20:57 549 0x11f018 > atg01 4 0 05/30/2003.08:12 553 0x105018 > 1 05/29/2003.20:57 549 0x11e018