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ontape brought the IDS instance down

Posted in 2006

Topics: Backup & Restore, Stored Procedures & SPL, Error Codes & Troubleshooting, Logging & Checkpoints, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

SPUTNIK1 SPUTNIK — — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Hi Forum, I got a somewhat strange issue. I was running a level -0 archive with ontape and after 10% completion, the Informix instance crashed with the following error messages. The message it displayed on the screen was: Archive failed. - buc_fe.c: Archive API processing failed at line 298 for msgtype The online log says the following. 17:48:14 Logical Log 593450 Complete. 17:48:16 Logical Log 593450 - Backup Started 17:48:16 Logical Log 593450 - Backup Completed 17:50:30 Logical Log 593451 Complete. 17:50:31 Logical Log 593451 - Backup Started 17:50:31 Logical Log 593451 - Backup Completed 17:50:43 Exception Recursion while handling: MT_EX_OS, Context: mem 17:50:43 PANIC: Attempting to bring system down I recently changed the ontape block size from 512 K TO 1024 K. Could this be the reason for this behaviour. There were no error messages prior to this. I am using IDS 7.31 UD6 on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1AS/i686. Subsequent backups using ontape worked after the above failure. Any ideas guys? Regards, sputnik2005

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AJAY GUPTA — — source: IIUG Forums & Mailing Lists

Without stack or session information, it is not possible to say, why server crashed. While backup is running, if server is brought down or crashed, you will see the similar failure message from ontape.

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