Hi Nikolai, if you get a -8003 (Log and data must be compatible) in your situation means, that you tried to start the database with the data of the other database and the log of the previous database (The database kernel tries to use the log to update the data to the last logged state during a start).
Please reinstall your database with the Installation Wizard and choose "Installation for Recovery". The database is initialized (the previous log is deleted!) and you can than restore the backup of the other database. Best regards, Tilo Heinrich SAP Labs Berlin -----Original Message----- From: Nikolai R�nningen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Freitag, 20. September 2002 17:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem with restoring backups Hi, I'm testing basic backup / restoring and I'm having some problems restoring backups from another database instance. (I'm using DB Manager GUI). I can restore the backup from another database successfully (at least it gives no error message), but when I press restart nothing happens, I just get an hourglass which seems to last forever. Also, trying to set the db to online doesn't work. I can restore a backup made from the same db on the same machine, but I need to be able to restore a backup set on another machine in case there's some problems with the main server. The error message I when I try to get the database online again looks something like this: -24988 sql error [db_warm -f]; -8003,Message not available >From the documentation it seems that this has something to do with the log and data areas, which "must be compatible", that probably means that settings must be identical? I have tried using to identical databases as source and destination, but that doesn't seem to work either. The documentation remedy is to "specify the correct backup version" and also import the necessary log files if any. (Allthough that should not be necessary since the backups are consistent). So I'm guessing the problem is that I'm producing an "invalid" backup that cannot be restored on another machine without some extra files? Nikolai _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general _______________________________________________ sapdb.general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.sap.com/mailman/listinfo/sapdb.general
