Re: ontape restore failing

Lack of kernel? Looks like the "dd" command ran out of memory. Check what the kernel recommendations are for memory in "$INFORMIXDIR/release/en_us/0333/ids_unix_release_notes_9.40.txt" file (or a similar file name) against what you have set in /unix. The remote TAPEDEV device configuration shouldn't have made a difference. I'm curious who the snooty archive guru is? Hope this information helps. Brice Avila Minneapolis, Minnesota emebohw@netscape.net (sumGirl) wrote in message news:<a5e13cff.0408130517.53bbd41c@posting.google.com>... > Good morning everyone. I am trying to use ontape to restore some > dbspaces and I am getting a weird message: > / > dd: 0511-051 The read failed. > : There is not enough memory available now. > 0+0 records in. > 0+0 records out. > > Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code 1 > errno 0 > Program over. > \\ > The host is an IBM RS6000 running AIX 5.2. The engine is IDS 9.40.fc2. > Also, the tape device in onconfig is configured as a remote device > like so "system:/dev/rmt0" > > As I understand it, after the 9.2->9.4 upgrade, we had to change the > tape device from rmt0 to the system name:rmt0 due to some problem that > was occuring. This was done at support centers recomendation and I am > going to call them back but I am dreading it because the archive guru > I always get is so snotty. > > Anyone ever seen anything like this?