Re: Ontape to backup

benlag@my-deja.com wrote: > > Hello all, > > We recently upgraded our Informix server runnning on HP-UX10.20 to > 7.3UC8. > Since this upgrade our backup operator has been having problems running > a level 1 backup using the syntax "ontape -s -L 1". > > We get the following error message: > "Archive failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 errno 2" Errno 2 is: No such file or device. Looks like the value of TAPEDEV in your onconfig file is incorrect or the Sysadmin renamed the tape drives without telling you. > This gives me the impression that somewhere permissions have been > modified when doing the upgrade. > The weird thing is that the user can run a level 0 backup without any > problem. Are you SURE the level 0 is not failing also? Is the user typing the ontape command manually or running a script? Is it possible that the script running the level 0 and the one running the level 1 are modifying the ONCONFIG file (my backup scripts do this so the operators can enter the tape device at runtime and not know how to much with the ONCONFIG file) and the level 1 script is breaking TAPEDEV? Or is the level 1 script/ontape being run from a different login or from an rsh or su session that may not have all of the environment vars set correctly? (If ONCONFIG is not set the engine looks in onconfig.std which is unlikely to have a valid TAPEDEV value.) Art S. Kagel