The ixbar file is the most important piece of a cold restore. When OnBar is to issue a cold restore it scans the ixbar server file and decides which backups it needs to get from that storage manager. The information stored in this file is also kept in the sysutils database. Onbar will use that database if it is called to perform a cold restore. The name of the ixbar file is in the format of ixbar.SERVERNUM .

Each time a backup is done, Onbar will put information about that backup in this file (as well as in the sysutils database). This file should not be modified by the users. Once again, if this file becomes corrupted, modified, or removed, online may not be able to find the backups it needs to perform a restore. Backups of logical logs are also recorded here.

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• key721ud1 2 L 0 1 0 3653 0 1997-04-29 16:46:34 1
• key721ud1 3 L 0 2 0 3654 0 1997-04-29 16:46:37 1
• key721ud1 4 L 0 3 0 3655 0 1997-04-29 16:46:39 1
• key721ud1 rootdbs R 1 4 0 3656 0 1997-04-29 16:47:34 1
• key721ud1 rootdbs R 1 5 0 3657 0 1997-04-29 16:47:59 1
• key721ud1 dbspace2 ND 1 5 0 3658 0 1997-04-29 16:48:01 1
• key721ud1 5 L 0 6 0 3659 0 1997-04-29 16:53:57 1
• key721ud1 6 L 0 7 0 3660 0 1997-04-29 16:53:59 1
• key721ud1 7 L 0 8 0 3661 0 1997-04-29 16:54:01 1
• key721ud1 8 L 0 9 0 3662 0 1997-04-29 16:54:03 1
• key721ud1 dbspace2 ND 0 10 0 3663 0 1997-04-29 16:54:44 1
• key721ud1 9 L 0 11 0 3664 0 1997-04-29 16:57:05 1
• key721ud1 10 L 0 12 0 3665 0 1997-04-29 16:57:08 1
• key721ud1 11 L 0 13 0 3666 0 1997-04-29 16:57:10 1
• key721ud1 rootdbs R 1 14 0 3667 0 1997-04-29 16:58:04 1
• key721ud1 dbspace2 ND 1 14 0 3668 0 1997-04-29 16:58:06 1
• key721ud1 12 L 0 15 0 3669 0 1997-04-29 16:59:30 1
• key721ud1 dbspace2 ND 0 16 1 3670 0 1997-04-29 17:00:24 1
• key721ud1 13 L 0 17 0 3671 0 1997-04-29 17:02:08 1

Column Definitions

• Column1: servername
• Column2: object_name - The dbspace name or 'L' for logical log.
• Column3: object_type - Either 'L' for Logical log, 'ND' for Non Critical Dbspace, 'R' for rootdbs or 'CD' for critical dbspace.
• Column4: Whole System Backup flag
• Column5: Action_id - An Informix unique identifier that is associated with the onbar backup command.
• Column6: Backup Level
• Column7: Copyid_hi - The unique identifer of that object that is stored in the storage manager.
• Column8: Copyid_lo - Another unique identifer of that object that is stored in the storage manager.
• Column: TimeStamp
• Column10: Onbar Version - comes from the sysutils:bar_version table. It is the value in the column bar_version.

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