OnBar Backup & Recovery Failures
Posted in 1998
Environment:-
HP-UX 11
OnLine 7.24.UC5
BaaN Application software
3 processor architecture
We are experiencing problems using OnBar ( via Omniback II ) in that
sometimes, when the archive starts first thing in the morning, the engine
hangs reporting CHKPNT BLOCKED: ARCHIVE.
Now, I have done a bit of research on this problems, which appeared to be a
known bug in 7.23 but was supposed to be fixed in 7.24.UC3 ( Informix are
checking this out for us as we speak but not having much success ).
The way in which you are supposed to clear it is by killing off the session
that is running the onbar processes but this still doesn't work so we have
to resort to killing off the master oninit process ( yes, yes, I know you
shouldn't do this but when onmode -ky won't even work, what else is there
to do ?? ).
Has anyone else had the same sort of problems ??
Also, point-in-time recovery doesn't appear to work either ( again, using
Omniback and onbar ). When we tried it, it continued to restore way past
the logical log reference and eventually failed ( because we didn't have
any more logs !! ). We eventually got back to point-in-log recovery from
the command line which worked fine.
Any suggestions ??
All responses ( however fickle ) welcome !!
Thanks in advance
SK