RE: Upgrade from 5.03 on AIX

Hi Cathy! We have a customer in guatemala that was experiencing many bugs from 5.03 and we upgraded them to 5.07 and no problem at all. We used the = old dbexport just to have everything recreated because their database was=20 just that bad too. Their configuration consists of a RAID level 5 AIX = 3.2.x, 12 gigabytes database, have just created an archive level 0 , tested the restore and no = problems at=20 all, the client has 8mm tapes 5 gigabytes of capacity and remember that AIX recommends 1024 for the block size in this case for better = performance ( we changed it within the tbconfig file) and the tape size = must be multiple of the block size, just make sure to verify the = parameters for the tape on AIX (smit if you prefer :=3D) I hope this information can help you, ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Estrada / SISTECO, S.A. INFORMIX, / Phone (502) 3340214 Support Department / Fax (502) 3348447 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- De: Cathy Kipp[SMTP:ckipp@bamboo.verinet.com] Enviado: viernes 3 de enero de 1997 10:00 Para: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu Asunto: Upgrade from 5.03 on AIX Folks, Can anybody give me a warm fuzzy feeling about any of the later 5.xx.xx engine products running on IBM RS6000 machines under AIX 3.25? We are currently running 5.03.UC2 and would like to upgrade to something a bit less buggy and more stable. I am particularly concerned with tbtape bugs as I do want to be able to recover the database. 7 versions are not an option right now, but will be in the not too distant future. Thanks! Regards, Cathy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cathy Kipp E-mail: ckipp@verinet.com Principal Consultant Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Database Strategies, Inc. Phone: 1-970-226-0240 Informix User Group of Colorado - President International Informix User Group - Board of Directors ------------------------------------------------------------------------