Re: Ontape Level 0 Archive Aborts Itself....
MS CARLEEN C AVANT wrote:
> Hi,
> Hoping someone can shed some light on the following. We are running
> Informix ODS 7.24.UC2 on Sun Ultra Enterprise 4000 utilizing Solaris 2.6
> We are using an Exabyte EXB-8500 tape drive; 8mm Helical Scan 7GB
> uncompressed tape. We have the following in our onconfig:
> TAPEDEV /dev/rmt/0mb
> TAPEBLK 1024
> TAPESIZE 6809600.> A few days ago we loaded the remainder of our production data. We were
> able to get one successful 0 level archive. It prompted for a second tape
> (for the first time since migration) with no problem. Yesterday we received
> OS Error #28....no space left on device. The Informix message log states
> "internal subsystem error...archive aborted by client". It never prompted
> for an additional tape.
> The system administrator has reviewed the documentation regarding tape
> drive, tapes, etc. for our platform and can find nothing specific pointing
> to a problem. Are we overlooking anything here? Perhaps any bugs of which
> we are unaware? Would appreciate any feedback in trying to resolve this
> issue so we can obtain a good level 0 archive. Thanks for your help.
>
> Carleen Avant
> Internet < cavant@safecen.navy.mil >
>
The tape is full before Informix is expecting an EOT. I'd try using
/dev/rmt/0 as this is the 'real' no compression drive for the tape. I can't
remember what the mb options are but there are incompatibilities between SVR
and BSD tape drivers with respect to Informix.
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