Need immediate help
We have version 7.13 informix running on hp-ux 10.01. Today our production system got crashed. just because of the few of chunks goes to offline and informix online is not starting up. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thx,
Fix the disk problems and restore the server from archives. Art Art S. Kagel Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) See you at the 2010 IIUG Informix Conference April 25-28, 2010 Overland Park (Kansas City), KS www.iiug.org/conf Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the entities themselves. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, DEEPAK JOSHI <djoshih@hotmail.com> wrote: > We have version 7.13 informix running on hp-ux 10.01. Today our production > system got crashed. just because of the few of chunks goes to offline and > informix online is not starting up. > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > > Thx, > > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > --001485f87c2ce9569904844c0e76
If you cannot replace the hardware, and if you used symbolic links for the chunks, you can create space elsewhere on the server, create the symbolic links to those spaces, and then restore from archive. Sorry for the run-on sentence. Larry > To: ids@iiug.org > From: art.kagel@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Need immediate help [19713] > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:08:32 -0400 > > Fix the disk problems and restore the server from archives. > > Art > > Art S. Kagel > Advanced DataTools (www.advancedatatools.com) > IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org) > > See you at the 2010 IIUG Informix Conference > April 25-28, 2010 > Overland Park (Kansas City), KS > www.iiug.org/conf > > Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that my own opinions are my own opinions and > do not reflect on my employer, Advanced DataTools, the IIUG, nor any other > organization with which I am associated either explicitly, implicitly, or by > inference. Neither do those opinions reflect those of other individuals > affiliated with any entity with which I am affiliated nor those of the > entities themselves. > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, DEEPAK JOSHI <djoshih@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > We have version 7.13 informix running on hp-ux 10.01. Today our production > > system got crashed. just because of the few of chunks goes to offline and > > informix online is not starting up. > > > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > > > > Thx, > > > > > > > > > ******************************************************************************* > > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > > > > > > --001485f87c2ce9569904844c0e76 > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. >
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:34, DEEPAK JOSHI <djoshih@hotmail.com> wrote: > We have version 7.13 informix running on hp-ux 10.01. Today our production > system got crashed. just because of the few of chunks goes to offline and > informix online is not starting up. > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > I trust the advice to go to the backup tapes and restore (possibly with new disks replacing the old ones) was doable. If you don't have backup tapes and spare disks to replace broken ones, you are in big trouble. IDS 7.13 has been out of service for over 10 years, I believe. It was never certified as Y2K-compliant (7.24 was the earliest certified Y2K-compliant version). According to the web site http://www.softwaredevelopment.ca/fyios.shtml (which also lists AIX, RedHat Linux and MS o/s service dates), HP-UX 10.01 was released in July 1995, became unavailable after October 2000, and reached end of normal support life in June 2003. I suspect the hardware is of a similar era and similarly on its last legs. You need to modernize your system urgently. I believe similar advice has been given to you before - outside the context of "something broke". But if you manage to get help, you can reasonably expect people to want lots of money to assist you, because you are way outside the bounds of normal operation. (Not the most extreme example I know of, but not too far behind.) -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2008.0513 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused." NB: Please do not use this email for correspondence. I don't necessarily read it every week, even. --0016e68ee246629a3c04848f67a4