Re: how to restore archive to 2 instances on same server

smooth1 wrote: > > Great until you start the instance from the wrong directory and > online flags all the 'missing' chunks as corrupt and you have to > restore from backup! > David, If you have read my original answer you should have noticed that the first sentence is a warning: You can do that, but it is NOT RECOMMENDED ! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and that is because you could mess up your instances. But if you know what you are doing and you want that you can wrap oninit/onmode/ontape/onstat ... in shell scripts for every instance. (to cd to the right directory, set environment, etc.) Anyway, I'm glad Rudy liked my staff, as I liked his staff so many times in the past. Thanks Rudy. Best regards, Mladen > Rudy Fernandes wrote in message <399C37BC.4C43042F@americasm01.nt.com>... > >Mladen Jovanovski wrote: > > > >> ... > >> > >> 3. In onconfig files for all instances use relative > >> pathname for ROOTPATH (only the basename of root chunk). > >> ie. > >> ROOTPATH=rootchunk > >> > >> 4. Initialize your instances from their respective chunk directories > >> with their respective environments. > >> ... > > > >> > >> EVERY TIME YOU BOUNCE YOUR INSTANCES OR PERFORM AN ONTAPE > >> RESTORE YOU SHOULD BE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CHUNK DIRECTORIES. > >> Mladen > > > >This is great stuff! It actually seems to work (I'm planning a little more > >extensive testing than what I've done so far - created 3 instances on the > same > >box , the last 2 derived from the first's Level 0 backup). > > > >I'm surprised that Informix hasn't bothered to document this. > > > >Thanks, Mladen. > > > >Rudy > > > >