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Hi Daniel This may or may not assist in your problem. There is a requirement for ontape to use temporary table space. What's more it has to be contiguous. If you have a ton of space but a very busy system using up bits and pieces of it all over the place, then ontape can fail complaining about insufficient temp space, although you might report a heap of it available. I have gotten around this on my (much smaller) system by setting DBSPACETEMP to a non-volatile data space for the purposes of the backup, IE scripting ontape -s. HTH rgds Peter Tashkoff <tashkop@zespri.co.nz> Zespri International Limited This posting may not be used by any party to vilify another. Standard disclaimers apply. >>> Daniel Walker <dwalker@hal-pc.org> 4/May/1997 01:51pm >>> Customer is running ontape -s l 0 on HP/UX 10.2 using 7.2 informix. They say they are getting errors from backup that there is not enough temporary table space.??? I have not heard of any requirements for ontape that it needs large amounts of temp dbspace?? There database is about 100GIG and has 20GIG temp dbspace. Daniel Walker dwalker@nis-guys.com