RES: Informix ontape level 0 backup finishes all day in 90 percen

timothy I changed TAPESIZE from 70 Gb to 65 Gb, and the problem was solved. Thanks. ----------------- timothy I liked your answer. I'll try to do this. On monday I'll informe you if the problem was solved. Thank you. ------------------------ The $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG TAPESIZE parameter is most likely set to high. Remember, as the data becomes more compressed within dbspaces (thru attrition, reorgs, etc) the tape drive compression is lowered. Example, our DLT7000 tape drive using 35/70 gb tapes were able to compress up to 70 gb without having ontape abort, but the TAPESIZE parameter had to be changed to 65gb recently. Sounds like you are reaching the peak capacity of the tape, so lowering the TAPESIZE value should do the trick. Tarcisio Gouveia <Tarcisio.Gouveia@refrescosguararap To: informix-list@iiug.org es.com.br> cc: Sent by: Subject: Informix ontape level 0 backup finishes all day in owner-informix-list@iiug.org 90 percent don e. 03/12/2004 08:31 AM Help me My level 0 backup is aborting all day in 90 percent(in the last tape). Information: Database size: 400 gb Number of tapes: 6(70 gb each tape) SAP version 46C SP39 Informix version: 7.31FC6X2 Unix version: Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229) History: My level 0 backup was normal. For 5 days it aborted in 90 percent, then I changed the tape drive. I changed the tape drive, then the backup finished. But in the next day it aborted again in 90 percent. I changed the last tape. The backup aborted again in 90 percent. sending to informix-list sending to informix-list