Informix Error -23632: Backup Manager Error: There are running backups/restores on a specified coserver - all coservers can't be blocked.

Cause and resolution

Backup Manager Error: There are running backups/restores on a specified coserver - all coservers can't be blocked.

You cannot block the coserver because backups or restores are currently active.

Wait until the backup or restore completes and retry the onutil EBR BLOCK command.

-23632 The backup manager cannot do any backups or restores while LOG_BACKUP_MODE is set to NONE.

Change the setting of the LOG_BACKUP_MODE parameter in your configuration file to MANUAL or CONT and retry the request.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-23632 fires when blocking all coservers is attempted while backups or restores are currently active on a specified coserver — per the official guidance.

Active backups/restores on the specified coserver at the time of the block request, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Wait until the backup or restore completes, then retry the onutil EBR BLOCK command, per the official guidance.

Examples

N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond blocking coservers with active backups/restores.

Diagnostic Checks

Check for active backup/restore operations on the coserver, and wait for them to finish before retrying the block command.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-23637 — "Unable to block the coserver. Backups and restores are currently active." A closely related coserver-blocking restriction, phrased for a single coserver's external backup/restore rather than blocking all coservers.

Coservers couldn't be blocked because a backup/restore was active — wait for it to complete, then retry.