Re: ontape problems

You make want to look at your TAPESIZE paramter and make sure that you have a size that is appropriate for the type of tape drive you are using. Your TAPESIZE paramter is probably larger than what your tape can hold and therfore you are hitting EOT before all the data has been written. inf_bb@hermes1.sps.mot.com (Bob Baskett) wrote: >we are attempting to run ontape (level 0) on a sun sparc center 2000 running >solaris 2.4 and online 7.10.UC1. it runs for about 3 hours before displaying >the following message to the screen: >20 percent done. Archive failed - function write to tape failed code -1 errno 2 >Program over. >the online log reports that the archive was aborted by client. the instance >being archived is about 30 gig in size. for whatever reason, our sys admin >swears there is a problem with getting messages written to the >/usr/adm/messages file, so there are no system messages being logged. we >have tried several different block sizes and as informix and root with the >same results... >any ideas? anyone else running the same config with ontape working? >regards, >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| . . | Bob Baskett | >| ... ... | Software Engineer | >| ..... ..... | Business Systems Integration Group | >| .. ... .. | Semiconductor Products Sector | >| . . . | Mesa, AZ | >| | President, Informix Users Group Of Arizona | >| Motorola, Inc. | rzbj40@email.sps.mot.com | >+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+