ISM Disable save set & OnBar

Hi all The Informix onbar is now working with my ISM, but I have a small problem with ISM - I think. If i create 3 archives with 'onbar -b -w' and disable the 1. and the 3. in ISM. I then run 'onbar -r' to restore the 2. archive. The result is, that the 3. archive is restored and the disable flags in ISM are removed without my help ! This was not what I wanted - I wanted the 2. archive. Is this a bug or.... ? Regards Poul Pedersen

I believe that what is happening is that OnBar is deciding which copy to restore and "demanding" that version from the storage manager. OnBar stores the backup information in two places: ixbar.0 in $INFORMIXDIR/etc and several tables in the sysutils database (bar_action, bar_instance, etc.) So, if you are doing a cold restore, you can edit ixbar.0 to remove the backups that are newer than the version you wish to restore. If you just remove the archive records and leave the log backup records in place, OnBar will restore the appropriate version and then apply the logical logs (unless you skip logical restore). HTH, Doug <poulp.geo@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:391ed2e3.33822043@q8n... > Hi all > > The Informix onbar is now working with my ISM, but I have a small > problem with ISM - I think. > > If i create 3 archives with 'onbar -b -w' and disable the 1. and the > 3. in ISM. I then run 'onbar -r' to restore the 2. archive. > > The result is, that the 3. archive is restored and the disable flags > in ISM are removed without my help ! This was not what I wanted - I > wanted the 2. archive. > > Is this a bug or.... ? > > Regards > > Poul Pedersen

On Tue, 16 May 2000 11:24:56 -0400, "Doug Agnew" <dagnew@charlottepipe.com> wrote: Thanks a lot Doug I changed to onbar -b -L0 and to restore: onbar -r -t "time_stamp" Regards Poul Pedersen >I believe that what is happening is that OnBar is deciding which copy to >restore and "demanding" that version from the storage manager. > >OnBar stores the backup information in two places: >ixbar.0 in $INFORMIXDIR/etc and >several tables in the sysutils database (bar_action, bar_instance, etc.) > >So, if you are doing a cold restore, you can edit ixbar.0 to remove the >backups that are newer than the version you wish to restore. If you just >remove the archive records and leave the log backup records in place, OnBar >will restore the appropriate version and then apply the logical logs (unless >you skip logical restore). > >HTH, >Doug ><poulp.geo@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:391ed2e3.33822043@q8n... >> Hi all >> >> The Informix onbar is now working with my ISM, but I have a small >> problem with ISM - I think. >> >> If i create 3 archives with 'onbar -b -w' and disable the 1. and the >> 3. in ISM. I then run 'onbar -r' to restore the 2. archive. >> >> The result is, that the 3. archive is restored and the disable flags >> in ISM are removed without my help ! This was not what I wanted - I >> wanted the 2. archive. >> >> Is this a bug or.... ? >> >> Regards >> >> Poul Pedersen > >