Re: Ontape

Posted in 1997

Art S. Kagel — Mon, 08 Sep 1997 11:27:28 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Robertson Lee NTSE wrote: > > Hi, [SNIP] > into a 10Gb area (say of 2x5Gb chunks) using offsets etc. Documentation > seems to suggest that if we archived it from a chunk of 2Gb, even if > only 2Mb was used within it, to restore it on another machine would need > a chunk of 2Gb to restore it into. Therefore the machine on which it is > to be restored needs in excess of 30Gb in free space. Am I way out here > or is this the way Informix works. The documentation is correct. Not only the same sizes but the same number of chunks and at the same pathnames. There is not solution. If the source machine is still up you can unload or export the data and create a new instance on the target machine and reload the data there. If the source is trashed you MUST recreate the exact environment to be able to restore the Archive tapes. Art S. Kagel