ontape restore error

i am getting an error trying to restore an informix db using ontape command.... [root@server1 tmp]# cat informix.backup | ontape -r Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 errno 0 this is the process i used to backup the db on another machine.... I changed TAPEDEV and LTAPEDEV to STDIO then.... ontape -v -s -L 0 | gzip -c >/tmp/informix.backup thanks, matt

matt wrote: > i am getting an error trying to restore an informix db using ontape > command.... > > [root@server1 tmp]# cat informix.backup | ontape -r > Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 > errno 0 > > this is the process i used to backup the db on another machine.... > > I changed TAPEDEV and LTAPEDEV to STDIO > > then.... > > ontape -v -s -L 0 | gzip -c >/tmp/informix.backup> > thanks, > matt > So, you have a gzip'd backup file? And you want to cat a gzip file (without gunzip'ing it) to ontape? Why not try gunzip'ing the file before trying to give it to ontape :-/