Data Consistency, Recovery, and Migration 4-17

Recovery

Important: If OnLine detects an I/O error on a chunk that is not mirrored, OnLine
marks the chunk as down. If the down chunk contains logical log files, the physical
log,or the root dbspace, OnLine immediately initiates an abort. Otherwise, OnLine
can continue to operate but processes cannot write to the down chunk. The only
method for restoring an unmirrored chunk is to perform a data restore from archive.
If you take OnLine to offline mode when a chunk is marked as down, you cannot
reinitialize OnLine unless the down chunk is mirrored.
Recovery
When OnLine recovers a mirrored chunk, it performs the same recovery
procedure it uses when mirroring begins. A mirror-recovery process copies
the data from the existing online chunk onto the new, repaired chunk until
the two are considered equal.
Ending
When OnLine ends mirroring, it immediately frees the mirror chunks and
OnLine makes the space available for reallocation.
The action of ending mirroring takes only a few seconds. No other event
(such as a checkpoint) is triggered by the action of ending mirroring.
A level-0 archive created after you end mirroring ensures that this infor-
mationis copied to the archive tape. This prevents the restore procedure from
assuming mirrored data is still available.