RE: Questions about ontape

I have created the same sizes of dbspaces in a new m/c as our production m/c. I am then restoring level-0 of the production system in the new one. When I am doing ontape -r, It restored the rootdbs fine. 2nd dbspace was also restored without any problem. When the third dbspace was getting restored, it exited with the following message. 'Physical restore failed. Function read archive backup failed. code - 1 errno - 5'. What is the reason for the failure? When it is doing restore, I am seeing the following message with onstat - command. 'Infx server 7.3 Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) - Up 00.25:00 , Blocked CKPT'. Is it ok or anything to be done on this? Sampath

SAMPATH wrote: > I have created the same sizes of dbspaces in a new m/c as our production > m/c. I am then restoring level-0 of the production system in the new > one. When I am doing ontape -r, It restored the rootdbs fine. 2nd > dbspace was also restored without any problem. When the third dbspace > was getting restored, it exited with the following message. > > 'Physical restore failed. Function read archive backup failed. > code - 1 errno - 5'. > > What is the reason for the failure? Ontape received an error while trying to read the tape. Unfortunately it was the dreaded and highly non-descriptive UNIX errno 5: "I/O Error". Look in your system message logs for any messages from the tape and SCSI drivers that may hint at the problem. Also try cleaning the drive heads and restoring again, make sure you are NOT using a no-rewind device, there should not be an 'n' in the devicename. Also on some systems you may have problems taking tapes from one system to another because of changes in the tape drive firmware level or the OS's tape device driver version. I have run into both of these last on Sun/Sparc/Solaris, DG/Intel/DGUX, and DG/M88K/DGUX. We are always careful that either sister machines are purchased and delivered together or we spend time and effort to get both machines on the same firmware/driver version levels to avoid surprises in case we need to cross-restore. > When it is doing restore, I am seeing the following message with > onstat - command. > > 'Infx server 7.3 Fast Recovery (CKPT REQ) - Up 00.25:00 , > Blocked CKPT'. Is it ok or anything to be done on this? > That is normal during a restore. Art S. Kagel