Re: your CHUNK status is DOWN..!!

} } >> hi INFORMIX'ers } >> } >> what do U have 2 do when U come in the monrning and found } >> the not mirrored chunk is down...!!! } > } >Go home and get back into bed. :-) } Cute. And if it happens when we come back from lunch, I suggest we go out and } have a heavy desert then. 8) (really big smile) } I've learned, I recently have to skip dinner only to find out that there is } nothing I can do accept to restore from archive. } > } >Do you have some details as to why its down? Look in the online log. } >Check the disk itself, why is it down? If its just permissions then fix } >them. If the drive itself is bad then swap it. Once all that is out of the } >way then restore from backup and roll any logs forward. See the Online } >Admin guide for more details. } > } Just to confirm this, is restoring from archive the only way to bring the down } chunk back up? How I wish the engine could just check the chunk when it starts } up, then it will find the the chunk is in fact online again. } Not really true. I didnt catch the version of Informix you are using, but if its 5.0 or less, and you do go down, you can bring the engine back online by setting the mirror flag in tbconfig to 1. Then, tbunload your database, initialize the space, and tbload the database back (and remember to check the logging status). There actually is a way to patch the chunk up, but Informix would probably faint at that sort of advice. -- Naomi Walker (aka N7FSA) | naomi@anasazi.com | Phoenix, Arizona ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Discovery is seeing what everyone has seen, But thinking what nobody has thought