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increase file limit 2gb for IDS 7.31 ontape -s -L 0 with linux

Posted in 2005

Topics: Backup & Restore, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Cesar Cruz — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Hi, We have Linux RedHat 3 Update 4 whith IDS 7.31 when ontape -s -L 0 is send it. The file in /backups2/backup allways end with 2GB file size but all the instance have 40 GB. This is the ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 4 max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8 stack size (kbytes, -s) 10240 cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited max user processes (-u) 7168 virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited This is the fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 the file /etc/security/limits.conf has nothing configurated. Some one can help me? Regards, ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? La mejor conexisn a Internet y <b >2GB</b> extra a tu correo por $100 al mes. http://net.yahoo.com.mx sending to informix-list

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Ben Thompson — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Cesar Cruz wrote: > Hi, > > We have Linux RedHat 3 Update 4 whith IDS 7.31 when ontape -s -L 0 is > send it. > > The file in /backups2/backup allways end with 2GB file size but all > the instance have 40 GB. With 7.31, once your ontape size exceeds 2Gb you will need to back up to a tape device and not a file. Or upgrade to 9.40+... Ben.

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