Informix Error -43010: Bad option usage: -f option requires a filename.

Cause and resolution

Bad option usage: -f option requires a filename.

The user entered the -f option and did not specify a filename. ON-Bar does not know which storage spaces to use in this command, so it cannot continue.

Specify the name of a file that contains the list of storage spaces ON-Bar should act upon, after the -f option, and rerun the command.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-43010 fires when ON-Bar's -f option is given without a filename — per the official guidance, ON-Bar then has no way to know which storage spaces to act on.

The -f option used without a following filename, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Specify the name of a file listing the storage spaces after -f, per the official guidance, and rerun the command.

Examples

Missing filename after -f

$ onbar -b -f
Bad option usage: -f option requires a filename.

$ onbar -b -f spaces.lst

Diagnostic Checks

Check the -f option's argument, and supply the storage-space list filename if missing.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-43011 — "The -f command is ignored for whole system backup/restore and fake backup." A related -f-option restriction, on when the option is ignored rather than missing its argument.
-43023 — "Bad option usage: -n option requires a log number." The same class of missing-argument error, for the -n option instead.

ON-Bar's -f option was given without a filename — supply the storage-space list filename.