Re: Help backing up logs to disk.

I've seen this logged as a bug on the Informix Website, hope it gets fixed soon! Art S. Kagel wrote in message <39C68C09.42006BA4@bloomberg.net>... >Have you bounced the engine since changing the ONCONFIG file? LTAPEDEV >chages do not take effect until the engine is bounced unless you made the >change using onmonitor which will also change the value stored in shared >memory. This behavior is different from TAPEDEV which is always taken from >the ONCONFIG file NOT shared memory. > >To change it in onmonitor, manually chage it to something else, then run >onmonitor and change it back in there. > >Art S. Kagel > >mdemoree@my-deja.com wrote: >> >> Thanks for your help. I actually forgot to add that I did run >> DEFINE/VOLUME and created VOL.HDR >> in /home/informix/archive/logs/VOL.HDR. I changed the LTAPEDEV in >> ONCONFIG and am still getting the same error. >> >> Here is part of my onconfig.ifmx: >> >> # Physical Log Configuration >> >> PHYSDBS rootdbs # Location (dbspace) of physical log >> PHYSFILE 4000 # Physical log file size (Kbytes)>> >> # Logical Log Configuration >> >> LOGFILES 6 # Number of logical log files >> LOGSIZE 500 # Logical log size (Kbytes)>> >> # Diagnostics >> >> MSGPATH /app/informix/new.log # System message log file path >> CONSOLE /dev/null # System null message path>> ALARMPROGRAM /usr/informix/log_full.sh # Alarm program path >> >> # System Archive Tape Device >> >> TAPEDEV /dev/null # Tape device path >> TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes) >> TAPESIZE 10240 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape >> (Kbytes)>> >> # Log Archive Tape Device >> >> LTAPEDEV /home/informix/archive/logs # Log tape device path >> LTAPEBLK 16 # Log tape block size (Kbytes) >> LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape >> (Kbytes)>> >> In my config.arc I have: >> >> DEVICE DISK = /home/informix/archive/log >> >> Do you have any other suggestions? My log files are filling up and need >> to get backed up as soon as possible. >> >> Thank you >> >> In article <xnqv5.258$RC1.49058@news.uswest.net>, >> "Bill Border" <bb22@uswest.net> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > We have been using ONArchive for years here at >> > HP. I think the problem is that LTAPEDEV is set >> > to /dev/null in ONCONFIG. You also should have >> > run DEFINE/VOLUME on that VSET before using it. >> > You would then have a V1 directory and a VOL.HDR >> > file in that directory. >> > >> > Good Luck, >> > Bill Border >> > bb22@uswest.net >> > Low-Cost, UX-Based Oracle/Informix Monitor: http://dbamon.com >> > >> > mdemoree@my-deja.com wrote in message <8pjlan$fnm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >> > >I am new at this and am just trying to set up >> > >Informix backup on our test HP-UX server. To >> > >begin with, I am trying to backup the logical >> > >logs to disk using onarchive. I have created a >> > >vset and volume for the backup >> > >in /home/informix/archive/logs and have >> > >successfully gotten the request to do the backup >> > >entered into the catalog. When I execute the >> > >command though I get the following error: >> > > >> > >Onarchive> EXECUTE/VSET=logs >> > > >> > >Execute pending request 00000008 for vset logs. >> > > >> > >Executing... >> > > >> > >ARC-E-01846, Error received from Informix server >> > >while processing archive or backup. >> > >IFMX-E-API, Log backup to device nul not >> > >allowed >> > > >> > >In the config.arc file I have: >> > > >> > >DEVICE DISK = /home/informix/archive >> > > >> > >What am I missing to make this work? Do I need to >> > >change any of the configurations in >> > >onconfig.ifmx? I would appreciate any leads since >> > >I have been going through the online >> > >documentation and cannot seem to get it to work. >> > > >> > >Thanks >> > > >> > > >> > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >> > >Before you buy. >> > >> > >> >> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >> Before you buy.