Hi All

Hope you can help, I'm not a DBA, but been left to restore an Informix db - don't ask why, horrible mess.

Anyway trying to restore using ontape -r after taking informix off-line, reads tape ok, but when I say yes to continue the restore it reports

physical restore failed - Bad READ/WRITE permissions: '/opt2/dbspaces/rootdbs'

I've logged in as informix and root and get the same result

If I cd to /opt2 and ls -la I get
drw-rw---- 2 informix informix 1024 Jul 11 2001 dbspaces
and can't cd into dbspaces.

Can anyone get me past this area?

Thanks

Hi,

Looks like a UNIX problem, but I'll give it a try.

Could it be that /opt2/dbspaces is a mount point or something and the disks underneath aren't mounrted. It only makes sense to retry the ontape command after you can access this directory.

Hope this helps,


Rob Prop

mwinwright:

try to set permission to the directory and the file as below:

cd /opt2
chmod 770 dbspaces
cd dbspaces
touch rootdbs
chmod 660 rootdbs
chown informix:informix rootdbs

good luck!

Regards,
Shriyan