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Informix Error -23638

Cause and resolution

Backup Manager Error: Invalid dbspace.

An invalid dbspace name has been submitted as part of a backup or restore command.

Check the command line for the backup or restore operation.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-23638 fires when an invalid dbspace name is submitted as part of a backup or restore command — per the official guidance.

  1. An invalid dbspace name in a backup/restore command, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Check the command line for the backup or restore operation, per the official guidance, and correct the dbspace name.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond an invalid dbspace name.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the dbspace name passed to the backup/restore command, and correct any typo.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -23627 — "Backup Manager Error: The Dbspace is unknown to the system." A closely related dbspace-validity error, on the dbspace not existing at all rather than a general invalidity.

An invalid dbspace name was submitted for backup/restore — check the command line.