Re: ontape -l tape number always 1? (IDS9.40UC6 on Solaris)

Hi, this is nothing to worry about. I'm not sure when/where this was changed, but this tape number actually is only the number of tape within a single (log) backup sequence. Admittedly, it is unlikely in a real environment, but to demonstrate this, I configured my log files to be bigger (a single log file) than LTAPESIZE. With that I get (for a backup of the current logical log that is partially full): % ontape -a Performing automatic backup of logical logs. Please mount tape 1 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Do you want to back up the current logical log? (y/n) y Tape is full ... Please label this tape as number 1 in the log tape sequence. This tape contains the following logical logs: 2 (partial) Please mount tape 2 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Tape is full ... Please label this tape as number 2 in the log tape sequence. This tape contains the following logical logs: 2 (partial) Please mount tape 3 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Tape is full ... Please label this tape as number 3 in the log tape sequence. This tape contains the following logical logs: 2 (partial) Please mount tape 4 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Please label this tape as number 4 in the log tape sequence. This tape contains the following logical logs: 2 Program over. % Now, when restoring this log file, I get the following: % ontape -r ... Restore a level 1 archive (y/n) n Do you want to restore log tapes? (y/n)y Roll forward should start with log number 2 Please mount tape 1 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Please mount tape 2 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Please mount tape 3 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Please mount tape 4 on /work/martinfu/731/ltapedev and press Return to continue ... Do you want to restore another log tape? (y/n)n Program over. % If I would have more logs backed up (by a different execution of "ontape -a"), then I would have said 'y' instead of 'n' (before the "Program over"). It would then have requested me to "mount tape 1" of that new log backup sequence ... I hope that this makes sense to you. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 16.03.2005 07:01:10: > > We recently installed IDS9.40UC6, what's strange is that when using > "ontape -l" to rollforward logical logs the tape number prompt is > always "tape 1" when there are multiple volume of tapes. On IDS9.30 it > was "tape 2, 3, 4, etc". > > Since we have some other issues with ontape I would like to know > whether this is normal behaviour for IDS9.40UC6 > > The OS version is Solaris 8. > > misac9shm@osun9071:/mis/a00/users/informix)ontape -l > > Roll forward should start with log number 5 > > Please mount tape 1 on /mis/a05/backup/misac9/llog/misac9-ltapedev and > press Return to continue ... > Do you want to restore another log tape? (y/n)y > > Please mount tape 1 on /mis/a05/backup/misac9/llog/misac9-ltapedev and > press Return to continue ... > > Do you want to restore another log tape? (y/n)y > > Please mount tape 1 on /mis/a05/backup/misac9/llog/misac9-ltapedev and > press Return to continue ... > Do you want to restore another log tape? (y/n)n > > Program over. > misac9shm@osun9071:/mis/a00/users/informix)onstat - > > IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC6 -- Quiescent -- Up > 00:15:40 -- 152576 Kbytes > > misac9shm@osun9071:/mis/a00/users/informix). > > misaccshm@osun9071:/mis/acc/informix/scripts)uname -a> SunOS osun9071 5.8 Generic_117350-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80 > > > Your help is appreciated ! > > > Regards, > Carl Wu sending to informix-list