RE: ontape -r failed.

Backup & Restore between different versions is not supported by IBM. You must be on the same version. I don't know if this is possible - others can comments - but how about loading 9.21 on the 2nd server, restoring, and then doing an in-place upgrade from 9.21 to 9.40 ? -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of F. David Sent: 17 February 2005 12:42 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ontape -r failed. Hello, I need help in restoring between different Versions of Informix. We updated one of our two identical datbases from IDS 9.21 to IDS 9.40. Now I need a restore of the 9.21 database into the 9.40 database. I did an ontape -s -L 0 and tried to restore with onmode -k and ontape -rThe message I got was: Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 errno 0. Does it mean that it is not poosible to restore from Informix 9.21 into 9.40 or do I have to do something else? Thanks for help F. David sending to informix-list