I expect this is obvious and I should know it but: Can anyone tell me wherefields 3 & 4 in a bar_act.log entry for backups are defined?
We're using IDS 9.30HC5 on HP-UX 11.11 and ISM for backups.

e.g., last night's level 0 has this:
2011-01-05 20:19:58 16405 16403 /opt/informix/bin/onbar_d -b -L 0 -w

....so what do the "16405" and "16403" refer to? They're not defined in the BAR guide, they DON'T match a unix pid, Informix sid or ISM saveset id and don't correspond to the "act_aid" column in sysutils.bar_action; and they seem not to be unique, either - we have at least one previous backup with the same numbers, the same goes for other backups and their own numbers in these fields.

Waiting to be humbled!

On Jan 6, 3:56*pm, Malc <mal... (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote:
It is the pid of the onbar process :

informix 8408 4487 0 16:20:29 ttyp6 0:00 /bin/sh /usr2/support2/
products/ids1150fc8/bin/onbar -b -F
informix 8410 8408 2 16:20:29 ttyp6 0:00 /usr2/support2/
products/ids1150fc8/bin/onbar_d -b -F

2011-01-06 16:20:29 8410 8408 /usr2/support2/products/ids1150fc8/bin/
onbar_d -b -F
2011-01-06 16:20:30 8410 8408 Begin fake backup.
2011-01-06 16:20:30 8410 8408 Completed fake backup.

Duh. As in the only one we didn't think to trap.
Ta Jon.