ontape causing problems with IDS 9.4

Hi. With an IDS 9.4 FCX21 server there have been chronic and highly intermittent issues with ontape. Sometimes during level 0 backups, level 1 backups, or ontape -a (just backing up the logs). Neither Informix Tech support nor any dbas I know have been able to figure this one out. What happens is that sometimes during the ontape execution either the server crashes (and NOTHING is written to the online.log to serve as debug info) and sometimes the server hangs in a CHKPOINT needed mode. The problem is NOT that logical logs are filling up-there is plenty of free logs. Has anyone ever encountered this situation? I know this is a kind of generic question but I am really running out of ideas here. Thanks

Hi, which OS and platform ? I have seen a similar issue - but only on HPUX IA64 (we only run HPUX PA-Risc, HPUX IA64, Linux 32bit). We had a similar issue only when running ontape -a started from the alarm program. Our solution was to start ontape -a from cron regularly instead of starting it from the alarm program every time a logical log was complete. Regards, Andreas > ------------------------------------------- SPAR Österreichische Warenhandels-AG Hauptzentrale A - 5015 Salzburg, Europastrasse 3 FN 34170 a Tel: +43 662 4470 24223 Mobile: +43 664 6259575 E-Mail: Andreas.KUTSCHE@spar.at Internet: http://www.spar.at Wichtiger Hinweis: Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail kann vertrauliche und rechtlich geschützte Informationen, insbesondere Betriebs- oder Geschäftsgeheimnisse, enthalten, zu deren Geheimhaltung der Empfänger verpflichtet ist. Die Informationen in dieser E-Mail sind ausschließlich für den Adressaten bestimmt. Sollten Sie die E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben so ersuchen wir Sie, die Nachricht von Ihrem System zu löschen und sich mit uns in Verbindung zu setzen. Über das Internet versandte E-Mails können leicht manipuliert oder unter fremdem Namen erstellt werden. Daher schließen wir die rechtliche Verbindlichkeit der in dieser Nachricht enthaltenen Informationen aus. Der Inhalt der E-Mail ist nur rechtsverbindlich, wenn er von uns schriftlich bestätigt und gezeichnet wird. Sollte trotz der von uns verwendeten Virus-Schutzprogramme durch die Zusendung von E-Mails ein Virus in Ihre Systeme gelangen, haften wir nicht für evtl. hieraus entstehende Schäden. Wir danken für Ihr Verständnis. Important notice: The contents of this e-mail may contain confidential and legally protected information that is in particular related to operational and trade secrets, which the recipient is obliged to treat as confidential. The information in this e-mail is made available exclusively for use by the addressee. In the event that the e-mail may have been sent to you in error, we would ask you to kindly delete this communication from your system and to contact us. E-mails sent via the Internet can be easily manipulated or sent out under someone else's name. We therefore do not accept legal liability for the information contained in this communication. The contents of the e-mail are only legally binding if they have been confirmed and signed by us in writing. If, in spite of our using Antivirus protection software, a virus may have penetrated your system through the sending of this e-mail, we do not accept liability for any damage that may possibly arise as a result of this. We trust that you appreciate our position. ------------------------------------------- -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: ids-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:ids-bounces@iiug.org] Im Auftrag von > WILL LANDSTROM > Gesendet: Dienstag, 07. Oktober 2008 04:59 > An: ids@iiug.org > Betreff: ontape causing problems with IDS 9.4 [13610] > > Hi. With an IDS 9.4 FCX21 server there have been chronic and highly > intermittent issues with ontape. Sometimes during level 0 backups, level 1 > backups, or ontape -a (just backing up the logs). Neither Informix Tech > support nor any dbas I know have been able to figure this one out. What > happens is that sometimes during the ontape execution either the server > crashes (and NOTHING is written to the online.log to serve as debug info) > and > sometimes the server hangs in a CHKPOINT needed mode. The problem is NOT > that > logical logs are filling up-there is plenty of free logs. Has anyone ever > encountered this situation? I know this is a kind of generic question but > I am > really running out of ideas here. Thanks > > > ************************************************************************** > ***** > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Hi. The OS is AIX 5.2 The problem with the archives actually occurs from ontapes scheduled in the cron.