Re: Onbar

I understand your confusion --- took me a while to work thru this error. You have to: 1. create a directory on your hard drive. 2. go to ISM and define a device of type file, and point it to the directory 3. then hilite the device in ISM and 'label' the "volume" as belonging to the ISMdata pool and give it a max size. 4. then mount the device -- the backups will be written to the directory specified. It seems that ISM ignores what is in the onconfig file. You may also want to define a device of type ISMlogdata to hold the logical log backups. Actually, i created 3 directories of each type, and have 2 of each type mounted at all times. When the older ones fill up, i dismount them, 'delete' the device, and create the device again, pointing to the spare directory, then re-labeling the directory i just pointed to. It appears that ISM is not aging out the backups either, so that, even though the files are past their retention date, they are not being so flagged by ISM. Good luck DAA-BW wrote: > We face a problem for which we don't know the solution. We are using > Informix Dynamic Server 7.30TC3 on a Win NT 4.0 computer. > Whenever we try to use onbar -b -w -L 0 the Informix Storage Manager > gives the following error message: > > media waiting event: bachup to pool 'ISMData' waiting for 1 writable > backup disk(s) > > The problem is that Informix was told to make the backup onto the > harddisk. I cannot change the harddisk to make onbar work. Can anyone > help ? > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > F. Psotka > > Bildungswerk der DAG e.V > Holstenwall 5 > 20535 Hamburg > Germany > Tel.: +49 40 35094 - 179 > FAX : +49 40 35094 - 199 > eMail: daa-bw.dv-organisation@t-online.de