After imaging error when trying to run a Probkup Online

[paulboundry]

I am running the following command,

probkup online {database name} {save location}.db1 -com < {back_extents}

When I run this i am getting an error message saying,

Switch to new ai extent failed.

Can anybody tell me whether this is because i have multiple after imagae extents and it can only recognise one. Or suggest any other reason.

I have no problems if I run an offline probkup but I would like to get the online version working to reduce the time that the database is down.

 

[Casper]

What is the output from rfutil dbname -C aimage extent list? Do you have an empty extent?
If your running on Porgress version 8 then offline backyup doesn't cause switch of the AI extents.
In version 9 AI switches also with offline backup.
With online backup the aimage extent switches to the next empty extent. If no empty extent is available then online backup fails.

casper.

 

[rich Zed]

coming into this late.. so, it's most likely well sorted by now, but for completion..

what Casper says is right..

what it most likely means is that all of your ai extents are full.

You're best of backing them up, and clearing them down before running the backup..

This command tells you which extents are full..

$DLC/bin/rfutil ${DATABASE} -C aimage extent full

then, after you've backed them up), run the following command to empty them:

$DLC/bin/rfutil ${DATABASE} -C aimage extent empty ${AI_FILE}