Re: ontape restore error

Posted in 2008

Doug Lawry — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:56:04 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"matt" <chimcentral@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:f9126ddd-274a-45ab-81f1-9fce681eebf8@u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > 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 Do you usually use onbar on the other server? If so, and logical log backup was active while you ran ontape, you will get this error trying to restore as I found recently on IDS 10. Regards, Doug Lawry