RE: ontape restore failing

Sounds like your problem is on Unix, and not on Informix - if I have to guess, I would say network, or memory. Informix uses the underlying unix "dd" command to run its ontape backup, and "dd" is reporting the error back to you. Does this happen on the first chunk? If yes, you can test a couple of dd's to try and pinpoint the problem. Are there any messages in your AIX message log ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of sumGirl Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:17 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ontape restore failing 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? sending to informix-list