Hello everyone

I am usualy using ontape to backup our database.

But now I need to perform backups on disk and not on tape anymore.

The problem with ontape, it is limited to 2 gig on disk. That is very annoying because I cannot do any automatic backup anymore.

I would like to use onbar to perform backups on disk. I think onbar allow file greater than 2gig.

I did run the onbar program. It doesn't work. I do not have any step by step documentation to install it. So here is what I did obtain as error.

bar_act.log:
2004-09-02 13:45:57 15141 15140 /informix/TST/bin/onbar_d -b -w
2004-09-02 13:45:57 15141 15140 ERROR: An unexpected error occurred: /usr/lib/ibsad001.so: cannot o
pen shared object file: No such file or directory .
2004-09-02 13:45:57 15141 15140 ERROR: Could not open XBSA library /usr/lib/ibsad001.so.
2004-09-02 13:45:57 15141 15140 ERROR: An unexpected error occurred: /usr/lib/ibsad001.so: cannot o
pen shared object file: No such file or directory .
2004-09-02 13:45:57 15141 15140 ERROR: Could not open XBSA library /usr/lib/ibsad001.so.
2004-09-02 13:45:57 15141 15140 ERROR: Unable to open file /informix/TST/etc/sm_versions
No such file or directory
2004-09-02 13:45:57 15141 15140 /informix/TST/bin/onbar_d: process exit 142 (0x8e)

Based on my understanding, OnBar is looking for and XBSA library. What is that library? And do I need it to do a backup on the local disk?

Is anyone has a kind of step by step installation and configuration of OnBar to backup on disk?

To fix that problem do the folllowing:

ln -s $INFORMIXDIR/lib/libbsa.so /usr/lib/ibsad001.so

But there are several steps you still need to do to setup ISM which onbar needs to run. Do a search on the Internet. I know there is at least one good how-to out there, I can't remember the URL. Also I think the IBM site has some of the documents online.

Thank you cpalush

It did work

Now I can do backup.

But I cannot restore.

The bar_act.log :
2004-09-07 09:34:48 29308 29307 /informix/PRD/bin/onbar_d -r -p -w
2004-09-07 09:34:48 29308 29307 Successfully connected to Storage Manager.
2004-09-07 09:34:48 29308 29307 XBSA Error (BSAQueryObject): Backup object doe
s not exist in Storage Manager.
2004-09-07 09:34:53 29308 29307 Due to the previous error, logical restore wil
l not be attempted.
2004-09-07 09:34:53 29308 29307 /informix/PRD/bin/onbar_d: process exit 100 (0
x64)


Any Idea?

Are you trying to restore on the same machine that you performed the backup on?

Also execute the following commands:

ism_show -devices

ism_show -volumes

No, I am restoring on another machine.

I did transfer the ixbar.0 and onconfig.0 files

ism_show -devices
file disk 1 mounted on /dump/PRD/ISM_ARC, write enabled
file disk 2 mounted on /dump/PRD/ISM_LOGS, write enabled

ism_show -volumes
volume pool flags written (%) expires
1 ISMData 0 KB 09/06/06
2 ISMLogs 113 MB 100% 09/06/06

Hi,

Please before run restore, run onbar -b -s, next run restore.

Gustavo

Hi

I did a onbar -b -w

That was not OK?

What is -s? ( Salvage logs - What does that mean )

What I would like to do is:
Doing a fool backup and restore it on another server.

For imported restores you will have to use the environment variable
INFXBSA_CLIENT=<hostname of the source machine where the backup was done>


This is for Veritas Netbackup, not sure what SM you are using.

-Abraham