Re: ontape in HP-UX

Posted in 1999

Pons Roca, Isidre — Wed, 1 Sep 1999 08:50:12 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Pablo Agirre wrote 31 Aug 99, 13:03: > I'm trying to use 'ontape -s -L 0' to do a full backup of the > Database > to tape, but it allways returns with a 'Tape is full' message. I'm > using HP-UX 10.10, do I need a special tapeblock size ? > > The DAT cartridge is new and I can use it with tar, etc. > > Hi. Check your TAPESIZE parameter on your informix onconfig file. It's recomended that this size is less than the total tape size. PE on a 9Gb DAT TAPESIZE will be 8950000KB. Take care. --------------------------------------- Isidre PONS ROCA BASE - Gesti' d'Ingressos Locals (Diputacio de Tarragona) Servei de Sistemes de Informacio Av President Lluis Companys 12-C 43005 - Tarragona SPAIN Tel # +34 977 236731 Fax # +34 977 227302 http://www.altanet.org ipons@dtgna.altanet.org ---------------------------------------