Re: Urgent problem with INFORMIX-ONLINE!

Posted in 1992

Dave Snyder — 6 Apr 92 12:48:10 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <1992Mar31.080121.7847@uni-paderborn.de>, joern@uni-paderborn.de (Joern Gehring) writes: > Yesterday I started an SQL-query on our INFORMIX-ONLINE-Database and because > it seemed to run much longer than expected, I canceled it with CTRL-C. > I think this was the biggest mistakte I ever made, because after that, > the current chunk of my dbspace was completely full. > I'm sure, that there were at least 10MB free before the interrupt! > And now there are gone - and I'm very short of disk-space! First... relax! Create a 5MB "cooked" chunk for your Online environment. Export the database(s) you want saved to tape (your low on disk space). Re-initialize your Online environment. Import the database(s) you saved to tape. DAS -- David A. Snyder @ Snide Inc. - Folcroft, PA Current Release is db4glgen-3.4 UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: dave.snyder@snide.com