Re: Replication questions

Johan wrote: > Hi! > > I have been trying to solve a problem with no luck, I hope > you can enlighten me. > We have two servers, 1 and 2. 2 is set up as the scondary server > in a replication arrangement. The two servers have been running > fine for a couple of months with no trouble with the replication. > But now our customer has "probably rebooted the primary server > once or twice...". Now, if you do a onstat -d on the secondary server > you'll see that all databases are marked as inconsistent. > Except for the two tempdbs. The primary server looks just fine. > > My first (and sadly, only) thought was to recreate the second > server, dump the first one, restore the first on the second > (exactly as described in the manual). > But, lo and behold, the second server _still_ has inconsistent > databases. Why? > I did get a warning in the logfile saying that the the tempdbs > are invalid, but are they the cause for the inconsistency? > > The replication works as it should, but the inconsistency-flags > are not pretty. > > What have I overlooked? Help, anybody? > We are running Informix 7.23 on HP-UX 10.20, the backup and > restore were made with ontape. > > TIA > Johan W > > -- > > Johan Wikstr'm > > Is it weird in here, or is it just me? Actually that is the way the chunks and dbspaces are supposed to be. That is up until the point you switch the secondary from read-only to writable. So it is not a problem, it is normal. Actually, it is odd the it was PO for such a long time and only recently was switched to PI like it should be. Jacques -- ******************************************************************** * Jacques P. Renaut "I'd dazzle you with brilliance * * Informix Advanced Support if I only had the knack..." * * email: jrenaut@informix.com #include <disclamier.h> * ********************************************************************