Re: Logical Logs problem

Don't use tbmonitor to backup logical logs. Instead, login into informix and run tbtape -a. In article <5bksl9$8np@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, odsharma@hclc.hclc-ggn.hcla.com says... > >Hi all, > >We are developing a project using Informix 5.0 Online and Visual Basic >4.0. >We are facing a problem quite frequently. Informix goes in 'recovery >mode' fails to become online saying that logical logs are full. Usually >this happens if server goes down due to some problem. > >We have 5 logical logs. Each logical log file is of size 1500K. >Size of logical log buffers is 32K. >Size of root dbspace is 20000 pages and a BlobSpace of 10000 pages ( >page size 2K). >"tbstat -l" shows 100% full for lal the logs. >Logical log tape device pathname & Archive tape device pathname is >/dev/null. > >When we try to take backup it just goes into a wait state and does not >come out. The status id shown as 'recovery' all the time. ( Device >/dev/null is working fine ) > >Is there a way out? Please help. A detailed reply including some >information on working Logical Logs would be appreciated. > >Thanks in advance. >O D Sharma