Informix Error -43392: One or more BLOBspaces are down. Log backup has been aborted.

Cause and resolution

One or more BLOBspaces are down. Log backup has been aborted.

A BLOBspace is down. Backing up or salvaging the logical logs would make it impossible to restore this BLOB in the future.

Bring all BLOBspaces online and retry the logical log backup or salvage.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-43392 fires when a log backup or salvage is attempted while one or more BLOBspaces are down — per the official guidance, proceeding would make it impossible to restore those BLOBs in the future.

One or more BLOBspaces down when a log backup/salvage was attempted, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.

Solutions / Resolution

Bring all BLOBspaces online, then retry the logical log backup or salvage, per the official guidance.

Examples

Bringing a BLOBspace online

$ onspaces -s <blobspace> -O

Diagnostic Checks

Check the status of every BLOBspace, and bring down ones online before retrying.

Related Errors / Related Topics

-43393 — "Storage space is down and cannot be backed up." A related down-space error, on a general storage-space backup rather than aborting a log backup specifically.

A log backup/salvage was aborted because one or more BLOBspaces were down — bring them online and retry.