Problem with Cold Recovery
Posted in 1997
We are attempting to recover some data we lost from a week old ontape
archive by doing a full informix cold recovery. There are two dbspaces
with two chunks in each space. When we do the ontape -r the first dspace
recovers just fine, but when informix gets to the second one it chokes. We
get a message that says "unable to open device dbspace2". This is not a
direct quote.
We searched the log and found this message. rsphr.c, line 396, thread 32,
proc id 3017, Aborting physical restore of ROOT dbspace, Aborted by CLIENT.
Needless to say we still need the data and can't seem to recover all of our
dbspaces. Since oninit can still access dbspace2, we tried a warm recovery
of dbspace2. That resulted in message which said Memory Fault. From my
experience that means ontape core dumped. Not very useful.
Has anyone encountered a similar problem? Do you have a solution? Is
there a repository of problems I can search? I have tried tech notes and
found nothing.
John Wells, First Pacific Corporation, 503-315-7233