Re: Data Loss in Online 5.03 UC5??

J. David Schronce wrote: > > We are experiencing random data loss. Parts of things that were there for several > days/weeks/months are simply gone, leaving the remainder untouched. It's happening > across a broad spectrum of applications (RDS 4.11) so I tend to reject the "You put > something in your code to delete it" theory. > > If anyone has experienced similar problems - and RESOLVED them - or has knowledge > of a known Informix bug that relates I would sincerely appreciate your feedback. > > ---dave--- > J. David Schronce, DBA, SysAdmin, Programmer, blah, blah, blah.. > Faster than the tallest building - Larger than a speeding bullet Hi J., did you perform a restore from tape recently ? there is a bug (No 18027) for Online Ver 5.0x till 5.04 that causes pages with very old timestamps not to be archived.Thus a restore from this corrupted archive results among many other bad things in missing data pages. I can sent you the description and the workaround, in order this not happening in the future, if this case applies to you. Regards, Tolis Varnas -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | V+K Relational Solutions email: tvarnas@compulink.gr | | Deligiorgi 26 tvarnas@orbit.de | | 546 42 Thessaloniki Voice: (30) 31 820270 | | Greece Fax: (30) 31 865463 | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+