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ontape -r. How do i know its working ?

Posted in 2003

Topics: Backup & Restore

Jack A — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I'm doing a restore using ontape -r. onstat - gives the following output onstat - *** WARNING: Informix Dynamic Server 2000 is no longer running. *** *** WARNING: Informix Dynamic Server 2000 is no longer running. *** Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC5 -- Initialization -- Up 00:03:31 -- 112640 Kbytes *** WARNING: Informix Dynamic Server 2000 is no longer running. *** My onstat -u gives a bunch of page cleaner threads. I dont see any I/O activity. How do i know if its working ? Userthreads address flags sessid user tty wait tout locks nreads nwrites cf0c018 ---P--D 1 informix - 0 0 0 10 5 cf0c608 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 cf11338 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 cf11928 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 cf11f18 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 cf12508 ---P--- 9 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 cf12af8 ---P--B 10 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 cf130e8 ---P--D 11 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 cf136d8 ---P-RM 12 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 21 active, 128 total, 22 maximum concurrent

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Jack A — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

OK. It bombed. Any idea what the stuff below means ... oninit: Fatal error in shared memory creation Physical restore failed - could not fork server connection Program over. "Jack A" <jacka8@excite.com> wrote in message news:79cb48187430df1afa179eb63392bbc3@news.teranews.com... > I'm doing a restore using ontape -r. > onstat - gives the following output > > onstat - > *** WARNING: Informix Dynamic Server 2000 is no longer running. *** > *** WARNING: Informix Dynamic Server 2000 is no longer running. *** > > Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC5 -- Initialization -- Up > 00:03:31 -- 112640 Kbytes > > *** WARNING: Informix Dynamic Server 2000 is no longer running. *** > > My onstat -u gives a bunch of page cleaner threads. I dont see any I/O > activity. How do i know if its working ? > > Userthreads > address flags sessid user tty wait tout locks nreads > nwrites > cf0c018 ---P--D 1 informix - 0 0 0 10 5 > cf0c608 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > cf11338 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > cf11928 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > cf11f18 ---P--F 0 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > cf12508 ---P--- 9 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > cf12af8 ---P--B 10 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > cf130e8 ---P--D 11 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > cf136d8 ---P-RM 12 informix - 0 0 0 0 0 > 21 active, 128 total, 22 maximum concurrent > >

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Fernando Nunes — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Jack A wrote: > OK. It bombed. > > Any idea what the stuff below means ... > > oninit: Fatal error > in shared memory creation > Physical restore failed - could not fork server connection You may have old segments in memory... ipcs -a can help you. If not, check the online log for further information. Regards

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