Re: imported restore with ISM

Hi, are you sure you need to run "ism_catalog -recreate_from ..." command ? The manual says to run this in the following situations: - Recovering expired save sets - Recovering volumes that are eligible for recycling - Recovering volumes that have been deleted from the ISM catalog But in the following situations (the second being your scenario ?) - The ISM catalog is corrupted - You reinstalled the operating system and the Informix database server software, which includes the ISM software I think you should run the command "ism_catalog -recover". For this you must first have the correct volume located (using your "Bootstrap Printout") and mounted. If you do not have the "Bootstrap Printout", then I think you first have to run the command "ism_catalog -find_bootstrap <device>" ... See manual "IBM Informix Storage Manager Administrator's Guide", especially chapter 5, section "Recovering Data After a Disaster". Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 29.11.2005 17:56:33: > I am having difficulty with imported restore with ISM > > I set the environment variables and run the ism_catalog command. It > never completes. I've left it for as much as 30 minutes and nothing is > happening. > > sddev1:D::/home/informix>export ISM_CLIENT=north > sddev1:D::/home/informix>export ISM_SERVER=sddev1 > sddev1:D::/home/informix>export ISM_DATA_VOLUME_POOL=ISMData > sddev1:D::/home/informix>export ISM_LOG_VOLUME_POOL=ISMLogs > sddev1:D::/home/informix>ism_catalog -recreate_from /ISMData/nDBlevel0 > scanner: scanning file disk nth0511182200DD on /ISMData/nDBlevel0 > scanner: file disk nth0511182200DD already exists in the media index > scanner: no client resource found for host `loopback', > no index entries to be saved for save set > `INFORMIX:/onlineipc_nr/rootdbs/0' (ss > id 60620) > > Does anybody have any ideas on what might be wrong? > > regards > > Malcolm sending to informix-list