RE: ONTAPE backup on disk: limit of 2Gb

Neil Truby wrote- > It's a known limitation with all versions of IDS. > The limitation is removed in IDS 9.40. Well nobody told my Tru64(RIP) version of 7.31 FD this, because it is happily creating greater than 40GB onbar files. Is it a 64bit version of IDS ? Is TAPESIZE set to something big, ie TAPESIZE 100000000 A simple workround is to use the method mentioned by Rob Vorbroker about a week ago -- >> mknod ontape_pipe p (Set TAPEDEV in onconfig file to this value) touch >> compressed_ontape_file.Z >> chmod 660 ontape_pipe >> chmod 660 compressed_ontape_file.Z >> compress < ontape_pipe > compressed_ontape_file.Z & >> echo '0\\n\\n' | ontape -s >> Replace compress with gzip for better compression. > "Rupan3rd" <rupan.nospam.3rd@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:3ED35B1B.8050204@hotmail.com... > > Hi there, I use Informix Dynamic Server 9.3 on Sun Solaris 8. > > > > I made a simple script for backing up DB contents to disk, > > changing onconfig's TAPEDEV accordingly. Worked fine until > > database grown up to more than 2Gb in size. > > > > Now I receive this error: > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please mount tape 1 on /export/home/dump/informix.dump and > press Return > > to continue ... 10 percent done. > > 20 percent done. > > 30 percent done. > > Archive failed - function write to tape failed code -1 errno 27 > > Program over. > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For sure OS is able to handle files which are bigger than 2Gb, > > and for sure ONTAPE is able dump those files on tape. > > > > Problem seem to arise when you dump the DB on a file system on disk. > > > > Any clue/hint? > > > > Any help will be appreciated. > > > > TIA > > Ciao > > Alessandro > > > >

Thanx guys, I think I'll go for the piped/compressed destination file. Really apreciated you help! Grazie e mille Ciao Alessandro Colin Bull wrote: > Neil Truby wrote- > >>It's a known limitation with all versions of IDS. >>The limitation is removed in IDS 9.40. > > > Well nobody told my Tru64(RIP) version of 7.31 FD this, because it is > happily creating greater than 40GB onbar files. Is it a 64bit version of IDS > ? > Is TAPESIZE set to something big, ie > TAPESIZE 100000000> > A simple workround is to use the method mentioned by Rob Vorbroker about a > week ago -- > > >>>mknod ontape_pipe p (Set TAPEDEV in onconfig file to this value) touch >>>compressed_ontape_file.Z >>>chmod 660 ontape_pipe >>>chmod 660 compressed_ontape_file.Z >>>compress < ontape_pipe > compressed_ontape_file.Z & >>>echo '0\\n\\n' | ontape -s >>> >> > Replace compress with gzip for better compression. > > >>"Rupan3rd" <rupan.nospam.3rd@hotmail.com> wrote in message >>news:3ED35B1B.8050204@hotmail.com... >> >>>Hi there, I use Informix Dynamic Server 9.3 on Sun Solaris 8. >>> >>>I made a simple script for backing up DB contents to disk, >>>changing onconfig's TAPEDEV accordingly. Worked fine until >>>database grown up to more than 2Gb in size. >>> >>>Now I receive this error: >>>------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Please mount tape 1 on /export/home/dump/informix.dump and >> >>press Return >> >>>to continue ... 10 percent done. >>>20 percent done. >>>30 percent done. >>>Archive failed - function write to tape failed code -1 errno 27 >>>Program over. >>>------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>>For sure OS is able to handle files which are bigger than 2Gb, >>>and for sure ONTAPE is able dump those files on tape. >>> >>>Problem seem to arise when you dump the DB on a file system on disk. >>> >>>Any clue/hint? >>> >>>Any help will be appreciated. >>> >>>TIA >>>Ciao >>> Alessandro >>> >> >> >