Re: ontape restor failed

sorry for bad english If your are under system5 OR Uniware With an aquanta platform (unisys) AND DLT (20 gigs) THEN 1 - Only archives Level 0 can be done and restaured 2 - Level 1 and 2 can be done but you 'll NEVER restaure them. I wish you are not in this case ... Regards - Philippe "Murray Wood" <murray@quanta.co.nz> a 'crit dans le message news: 8ucj95$n5s$1@news.xmission.com... > > The message says that the the archive on the tape is corrupt. This can be > reported because of a number of reasons... > Are you restoring from the same tape drive that the Archive was backed up to > (between machines)? > If not, are the specs of the drives on the different machines identical? > Do you have TAPEBLK set identical on the restore onconfig as the archive > onconfig? > > I presume the OS version and Informix version are identical! > Just some things to start with. > What is the exact message? What exists in the Informix log? Version of > Informix? OS? > > MW > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org > [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.iiug.org]On Behalf Of gbdba@my-deja.com > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:59 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: ontape restor failed > > > dear informix-group > > during the restore of our main ids server on the test ids server > following message occured: > > physical restore failed - the archiv backup is corrupted > > what does it mean. could there be an error by the tape or tape-device? > > we build on the test machine the same raw devices and dbspaces as on > the main machine. > > thank for your help. > > markus scheer > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. >