Help please! HDR 2ry; oncheck -ce: "Missing pages"
Posted in 2005
Topics: High Availability & Replication, Storage & Space Management, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life
Hi all,
I've got a small problem (small so far ;-)) which I'd be grateful for
any advice with!
My configuration is IDS 9.30.UC3 in an HDR setup, on Sparc/Solaris9.
The primary server appears to be in rude health - no evidence of any
problems, and all the usual "oncheck" consistency checks show nothing
to worry about. That's why it's only a small problem at the moment
:-).
However, the secondary is showing some problems. Catalog tables
(oncheck -cc) and data pages (-cD xxx) all check out fine, but the
extents check (-ce) is showing "missing pages":
--------------- snip here
Validating extents for Space 'tempdbd1' ...
Chunk Pathname Size Used
Free
2 /usr/informix/disk/tempdbs/tempdbs1 1000000 36757
963243
ERROR: Missing pages between 53 and 36757
Validating extents for Space 'tempdbd2' ...
Chunk Pathname Size Used
Free
3 /usr/informix/disk/tempdbs/tempdbs2 1000000 40453
959547
ERROR: Missing pages between 53 and 40453
Validating extents for Space 'datadbs1' ...
Chunk Pathname Size Used
Free
10 /usr/informix/disk/primary/datadbs1_b 1000000 125246
874754
ERROR: Missing pages between 482792 and 482800
--------------- end of snip
(I've only shown the chunks with the errors.)
So my question is, before I rebuild the secondary from a level0 dump of
the primary, I just want to check that these sorts of errors aren't
some sort of quirk of replication but are a sign that I really do need
to rebuild the server.
I'd also love to know what a "missing pages" error actually means!
Where did it lose them <grin>? (The chunks, by the way, are Informix
mirrored disksuite partitions, and the disksuite partitions are
mirrored themselves. So each chunk is on 4 disks - you'd think if
Informix looked hard enough it could find the pages it thinks are
missing ;-).)
Thanks in advance for any help,
Tim.