Re: Starting Data Replication Question

Hello, Yes, I mentioned the wrong computer, spu12 is in recovery mode. The ondatartr supposely does a physical recovery. I am starting to believe that it is the recovered rootdbs and root.chunk that are not right on spu12. I would have to wait for my system administrator to get back from sick leave to set up a tape for me to try the ontape command. Yes, my DR parameters are identical on both machines. Should I be able to see the status of the Databases using onmonitor when the server is in recovery mode? Should I be able to set the mode to secondary even if spu12 can't connect to spu11? If it is of any help for you, here is the result of the recovery from the log file: Wed Jan 10 13:42:17 2001 13:42:17 Event alarms enabled. ALARMPROG = '/opt/informix/etc/no_log.sh' 13:42:22 DR: DRAUTO is 0 (Off) 13:42:22 Requested shared memory segment size rounded from 600KB to 608KB 13:42:23 Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.30.UC3 Software Serial Number AAC# J451944 13:42:24 Informix Dynamic Server Initialized -- Shared Memory Initialized. 13:42:24 Dataskip is now OFF for all dbspaces 13:42:24 Recovery Mode 13:42:26 Physical Restore of rootdbs started. 13:42:34 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. 13:42:35 Physical Restore of rootdbs Completed. 13:42:35 Checkpoint Completed: duration was 0 seconds. Thanks! -Maria mosserp@wellsfargo.com wrote: > Actually, spu12 (secondary) should be the one in recovery mode; it should be > left in that state after you did the restore. I don't know what the > onarchive command is (no manual here, and I've never used the beast), but > make sure that you do only a "physical" restore, not a regular logical > restore. With ontape, you'd want to do "ontape -p", instead of "ontape -r". > Maybe you could give us the output from the message log from spu12 > immediately after you do the restore?? Also, make sure that your DR... > parameters in your onconfig file are set identical on both servers. > > HTH, > Paul Mosser > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maria C. Lopez [mailto:lopez@arl.army.mil] > Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:26 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Starting Data Replication Question > > Hello, > > I have been assigned to set two computers as servers for replication, > spu11 and spu12, using Informix! > I have followed all the steps for a physical backup on spu11 (primary) > and have restored the database on spu12 (secondary). I followed the > steps on the "Universal Server Administrator's Guide", chapter 30, > "Using Data Replication", section "Starting Data Replication for the > First Time." These steps included using onarchive and ondatartr. > Everything seems all right as far as the backup is concerned. > > Following the steps, I set spu11 to primary, and that works. > When I try to set spu12 as secondary I get an error. > > The command is, onmode -d secondary spu11. > The feedback is DR: Unable to change server type. > > The server spu11 is on the right mode, recovery, according to the > manual. > > Any suggestions? > > -Maria