RE: lost tblspace help

Restore from archive after correcting the problem that caused the chunk to go down. OR initialise the instance and start again. Murray Wood -----Original Message----- From: jandspaul@my-deja.com [SMTP:jandspaul@my-deja.com] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 9:07 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: lost tblspace help our 5.x informix systables got hosed somehow. using dbaccess, informix sees the database, but we can't connect to or drop the database because of a tblspace does not exist error. the primary chunk is also down (not mirrored). tbcheck won't work because the tblspace doesn't exist. using tbmonitor, we can see how much of the dbspace is being used, but that's about it. how can i recover from this? any solutions are appreciated. we can't drop the dbspace because it's not empty and we can't empty it because we can't get to the database. Thanks in advance James Paul National Weather Service ABRFC jhp@awips1.abrfc.noaa.gov Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.