Re: When chunks are removed unconditionally

Krupa Shankar wrote: > > I am using informix ver 5.X online engine. Here since it is a development > site, we have the chunks as unix flat files. Say file1, file2, and file3. > > One of the files, say file3 has been removed by our sys. administrator. > Somehow the "update resume" feature might come in handy for you SysAdmin. <G> > So database with only two chunks. The system was not coming to online > flashing the message that chunk "file3" couldn't open. What are the possible > solutions to recover except from the backup. Can we up the engine with only > two chunks? > I'm not absolutely certain with 5.0x (it's been a while) but Informix will have problems if you try to bring the engine up. How do you back up the Informix data? Did you include "file3" in a file-system backup? John Carlson Informix DBA WH Smith, Inc. > Thanks in advance > > Dhanesh. K.V.