Re: Dbimport Problem

Jijo Joseph wrote: Somewhere in the documentation, it says that 2GIG is the tape size limitation for dbimport. We opened a case with Informix support, and they said it is a current "feature request" to support larger tape sizes. > > Hi Everybody , > > Environment : > > Informix Online 7.20 UC4 > DEC Alpha 2000 > Digital Unix 3.2G > > Problem : > > dbexport stores7 -t /dev/rmt0h -b 16 -s 4096000 > > It works fine without any errors ... > > Now > > dbimport stores7 -t /dev/rmt0h -b 16 -s 4096000 > > Header size error ,block size should be 16K,tape size should be -196608K > > and the program aborts > > Trial and Error revealed that it works if dbexport with tape size 2097150 > > We use the same block size , tape size for ontape and it works fine. > restoration also tested and found Ok > > Why it is not showing any error while dbexport ? > > Anyway I was lucky enough to test it before the actual disk initialisation . > thank God . > > Jijo > AIC Kuwait