What Informix version?
Post onstat -m, onstat -l
What part of the restore locks up? Does then physical restore complete?
Are you trying to do a logical restore too?
MW
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> twhitti615@yahoo.com
> Sent: Sunday, 14 August 2005 9:04 a.m.
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> Subject: Checkpoint Blocked on Restore?
>
> I have a checkpoint blocked message when I try to to a cold restore
> using ontape. (ontape -r). It is a small database about 6 gig.
>
> We are migrating an instance from one box to another. The
> PRODUCTION onconfig has the following
>
> LOGFILES 20 # Number of logical log files
> LOGSIZE 500 # Logical log size (Kbytes)>
>
> When the restore starts, the online.log file has the following:
> "WARNING! Logical log layout may cause Dynamic Server to get
> into a locked state. Recommended smallest logical log size
> is 2 times maximum concurrent user threads."
>
> The restore locks up about 12 minutes into the process.
>
> Obviously my logs are not big enough. However, they are the
> same as on the production box. I have thought to
> reinitialize the instance, giving it more log space, but I
> believe that the restore will simply revert back to the above.
>
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Ted
>
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