Informix Error -43020: Storage space names ignored for fake backup, whole system backup/restore, log restore, or log salvage.

Reasons / Common Causes

-43020 fires when storage space names are given for a fake backup, whole-system backup/ restore, log restore, or log salvage — per the official guidance, these operations act on all storage spaces (or none — log restore/salvage doesn't touch spaces at all), so any named spaces are ignored.

1. Storage space names given for an operation that doesn't use them, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause; this is informational, not a failure.

Solutions / Resolution

1. No action is required, per the official guidance — the operation proceeds without using the named spaces.

Examples

N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond naming spaces for one of these operation types.

Diagnostic Checks

1. Confirm the operation type doesn't use per-space arguments, if the named spaces were expected to matter.

Related Errors / Related Topics

• -43011 — "The -f command is ignored for whole system backup/restore and fake backup." A related ignored-argument message, for the -f filename option specifically.

Storage space names were ignored because the operation type (fake backup, whole-system, log restore/salvage) doesn't use per-space arguments — no action needed.