archecker/restore results

For anyone who may be interested, we ran a Level 0 backup, then ran archecker against it. Below is the message log from the archecker run. We then followed the archecker run with an ontape -r. The restore was successful. No errors, no problems. Any comments are welcome. Archecker v4.4, Informix 7.31.UC2A 10/09/2000 19:13:46 ----------------------------------------- STATUS: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A Program Name: archecker Version: 4.4 Released: 02/22/99 17:24 Compiled: 02/22/99 17:26 on SunOS 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 STATUS: AC_STORAGE /tmp STATUS: AC_MSGPATH /tmp/ac_msg.log STATUS: AC_VERBOSE on TIME: [10/09/2000 19:13:46] All old validation files removed. TIME: [10/09/2000 19:13:50] Tape 1 started ERROR: Unable to open a partition file (Above error repeated 49,487 times), then: TIME: [10/09/2000 19:25:17] Tape 1 completed STATUS: Scan PASSED STATUS: Control page checks PASSED STATUS: Validating reserve pages. STATUS: Reserve page validation PASSED STATUS: Checking rootdbs:TBLSpace Followed by list of tblspace/tables being checked, then: STATUS: Table checks PASSED STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/dadimgbs STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/dadimgbs2 STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/raimgbs STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/dltimgbs STATUS: BLOBChunk checks PASSED TIME: [10/09/2000 19:25:44] Checking Completed STATUS: Tables/Fragments validated: 776 Archive Validation Passed -- BillS Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

billybob, Does the number of error messages (49,487) match anything in the instance structure (no. of tables, total no. of extents, no. of tables plus indexes)?? My guess is that it is related to the number of tables, or total table fragments. Did you run archecker on the same system the backup was taken from? Maybe it is trying to really open the chunks for some reason. I seriously doubt it but don't KNOW. Doug "billybob" <whseverd@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:8s1sa1$8bd$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > For anyone who may be interested, we ran a Level 0 backup, then ran > archecker against it. Below is the message log from the archecker > run. We then followed the archecker run with an ontape -r. The > restore was successful. No errors, no problems. Any comments are > welcome. > > Archecker v4.4, Informix 7.31.UC2A > > > > 10/09/2000 19:13:46 > ----------------------------------------- > STATUS: Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31.UC2A > Program Name: archecker > Version: 4.4 > Released: 02/22/99 17:24 > Compiled: 02/22/99 17:26 on SunOS 5.5.1 Generic_103640-24 > > STATUS: AC_STORAGE /tmp > STATUS: AC_MSGPATH /tmp/ac_msg.log > STATUS: AC_VERBOSE on > TIME: [10/09/2000 19:13:46] All old validation files removed. > TIME: [10/09/2000 19:13:50] Tape 1 started > ERROR: Unable to open a partition file > > (Above error repeated 49,487 times), then: > > TIME: [10/09/2000 19:25:17] Tape 1 completed > STATUS: Scan PASSED > STATUS: Control page checks PASSED > STATUS: Validating reserve pages. > STATUS: Reserve page validation PASSED > STATUS: Checking rootdbs:TBLSpace > > Followed by list of tblspace/tables being checked, then: > > STATUS: Table checks PASSED > STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/dadimgbs > STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/dadimgbs2 > STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/raimgbs > STATUS: Check overhead pages for blobchunk /dev/Development/dltimgbs > STATUS: BLOBChunk checks PASSED > TIME: [10/09/2000 19:25:44] Checking Completed > STATUS: Tables/Fragments validated: 776 > Archive Validation Passed > > > -- > BillS > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.

Doug Agnew wrote in message ... >Did you run archecker on the same system the backup was taken from? Maybe >it is trying to really open the chunks for some reason. I seriously doubt >it but don't KNOW. > Run truss -aef -v all -o /tmp/1 -t open archecker... This should allow you to find what it is trying to open. Perhaps it is a temporary file which it cannot open.