Re: ontape restore error

Hi, not sure why you do the "-v" for the backup and what you expect from it. Also, not sure what effect this has on the backup. Think about it ... you send the backup to standard out, but you enable the verbose mode (which normally also writes to standard out). If that is really what happens (and I'm not sure today (Sunday ...)), then the backup will be 'garbled' with the verbose stuff, which may cause the restore problem Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Martin Jetter Board of Management: Herbert Kircher Corporate Seat: Boeblingen, Germany Reg.-Gericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 25.07.2008 17:20:49: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list