ONDBSPACEDOWN won't get you past an incomplete restore - will it? (Prove me wrong!)

Besides, 0 is the default. I can't remember ever seeing anyone change it.

Andy


roeferr@ig.com.br (Ferronato) wrote in message news:<df1bdeb4.0404120554.1345821b@posting.google. com>...
> Hi,
>
> Why not run ontape -r -D <dbpsace list>
> You can restore only chunks of these dbspaces and the rootdbs,
> physical and logical log ...
> You can create a little dbspace temp .... after that.
> You have to modify your ONCONFIG file, in line ONDBSPACEDOWN change to
> 0 (zero) - means 'CONTINUE', because the deamon oninit will not find
> all dbspaces.
>
> I hope it helps you.
>
> Regards. R. Ferronato
>
> Paul Watson <paul@oninit.com> wrote in message news:<4075F393.413F8CDD@oninit.com>...
> > Malcolm
> >
> > you might get away a with a rootdbs and some data dbspaces being
> > restored, a lot depends on how the database is split
> >
> > malcolm wrote:
> > >
> > > One of my customers has an 84Gbyte instance which contains a lare
> > > number of databases. They run this 24 by 7. For administrative
> > > reasons they require to access a copy of the database from about 2
> > > months ago, but they can't revert the whole system.
> > > They do have a parallel machine running the same OS, same version of
> > > IDS, etc, but it doesn't have enough disk space to restore the whole
> > > instance.
> > >
> > > The instance was backed up with ontape, is running on AIX 5.2 running
> > > Informix IDS 9.30.
> > > Is there any way we can do a restore without having all of the chunks
> > > available?
> > >
> > > I suspect we only need a few of the tables. And the dbspace that we
> > > need to restore is at most 5 chunks of 2 Gbytes.
> > >
> > > Any ideas much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Malcolm