ISM volume mount problem

Hi folks, I've a problem with a volume in the ISM. ISM starts up correctly but I cannot do any backups with onbar. I looked in the log files and found the problem. After a system crash, my ISM Volume is not longer writable. ism/log/daemon.log: ... 08/01/08 12:15:57 nsrd: media info: file disk ISMLogs was being written before crash ... ism_show -volume ISMLogs ... 22517 INFORMIX:/baan/0/923 5247848 08/01/08 22518 INFORMIX:/baan/0/924 5247848 08/01/08 22519 INFORMIX:/baan/0/925 i 0 08/01/08 (The last logical log backup wasn't successful because we had a system crash) ism_show -volumes volume pool flags written (%) expires ISMLogs ISMDiskLogs d 3187 MB 100% 07/30/10 The volume is bigger than 3 GB ( I think it is an 30 GB volume). What means the "d" Flag. I can't found any informations in the Informix System Administration Manual. When I try to unmount and mount the volume via ism_op I got an error nsrmm: cannot seek on volume /informix/baan/logarch : Bad file number Any suggestions how I get this volume writable again. I won't label it because I need the backup files on the disk. And I don't have an other device, yet. Thanks, Christian.

Hi, the manual to consult is the "IBM Informix Storage Manager Administrator?s Guide" (rather than the "System Admin Guide/Refernce" manuals. Though I can't find the documentation of the "d" flag value. :-( Have you checked that the device is mounted properly (e.g. "ism_show -devices")? Please see the manual - it still may give you some ideas on what is wrong ... Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Martin Jetter Board of Management: Herbert Kircher Corporate Seat: Boeblingen, Germany Reg.-Gericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 Christian Schmidt <weltraumschmidt@googlemail.com> Sent by: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org 01.08.2008 14:24 To informix-list@iiug.org cc Subject ISM volume mount problem Hi folks, I've a problem with a volume in the ISM. ISM starts up correctly but I cannot do any backups with onbar. I looked in the log files and found the problem. After a system crash, my ISM Volume is not longer writable. ism/log/daemon.log: ... 08/01/08 12:15:57 nsrd: media info: file disk ISMLogs was being written before crash ... ism_show -volume ISMLogs ... 22517 INFORMIX:/baan/0/923 5247848 08/01/08 22518 INFORMIX:/baan/0/924 5247848 08/01/08 22519 INFORMIX:/baan/0/925 i 0 08/01/08 (The last logical log backup wasn't successful because we had a system crash) ism_show -volumes volume pool flags written (%) expires ISMLogs ISMDiskLogs d 3187 MB 100% 07/30/10 The volume is bigger than 3 GB ( I think it is an 30 GB volume). What means the "d" Flag. I can't found any informations in the Informix System Administration Manual. When I try to unmount and mount the volume via ism_op I got an error nsrmm: cannot seek on volume /informix/baan/logarch : Bad file number Any suggestions how I get this volume writable again. I won't label it because I need the backup files on the disk. And I don't have an other device, yet. Thanks, Christian. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list