RE: Onbar - failures with pit recovery

What storage manager are you using? I've had problems in the past with logical restore using Tivoli. Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [SMTP:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of malcolm weallans > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 9:15 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Onbar - failures with pit recovery > > We have implemented onbar on IBM AIX 5.2 64 bit with IDS 9.40.fc3. > When we do a point-in-time recovery it sticks if fast-recovery for > some time and then fails with an assertion failure and problems with > shm. I can't give the exact messages at this time as we are trying a > point-in-log recovery at the moment and I don't have the ability to > dial in when the recovery is underway. > > For background information we tried three pit recoveries before we > went live and two worked. As we had started trying to do a log backup > whilst recovering on the attempt that failed we assumed that this was > the cause. > > The site is 24 x 7 and today a junior support person reloaded a table > wrongly and corrupted a live table. So we decided to use pit recovery > to restore to about 5 minutes before the error occurred. This failed > with the assertion failure so we tried another usiing a point-in-time > before the current log. That failed as well. > > I am told that FC5 is now available and fixes problems with similar > symptoms to this, but the scheduling of a software upgrade like that > is not easy. However, if we were sure that this would fix the > recovery I would be able to force installation in a very short time. > Can anybody look through the bug lists fixed in FC5 to see if there is > anything likely, (FC5 release notes are not on IBM web site yet), or > does naybody have any ideas what we are doing wrong. > > regards > > Malcolm sending to informix-list