Use the ccmsrv restore command to restore
a database server.
Before you begin
You must be an
Informix-Admin group member
and working as
local administrator to perform this
command. You must run this command on the machine where the database
server resides.
Procedure
- Verify the system configuration and the configuration file.
See System configuration and Configuration file.
- If possible, view the status of the database server.
> ccmsrv status
The output of
this command is:
*** database server tonnyx ***
server number: 1
state: online mode
maximum users allowed: 10
number of users: 1
archive device: \\.\TAPE0
network service: turbo
Database List:
- The server must be offline before you begin the restore
process. Take the server offline.
> ccmsrv
offline
- Verify that the server is offline.
>
ccmsrv status
If the server is offline, you see a
message like this one:
Database server is Off-Line64
What to do next
You now can restore the database server from tape. See Restoring database servers from archive for Windows.