Re: Restore failure

Hi. Are you restoring back to the same machine that the ontape backup was taken from? If so, it's strange that there would be a shmat OS error. If you are restoring to a different machine, ensure that the ONCONFIG TAPEDEV/TAPEBLK/TAPESIZE are correct. It is possible that on the new machine, the system SHMMAX is too small, try increasing it to the maximum value. I suppose even you are restoring to the same machine, if prior to the restore, the OS administrator changed the system SHMMAX setting, it could also cause problems. If it still fails, please send the system's /etc/system settings, and the ONCONFIG's SHM* and TAPE* related settings. Thanks. Davis W. Kwong red_valsen@yahoo. com Sent by: To owner-informix-li informix-list@iiug.org st@iiug.org cc Subject 11/15/2005 02:25 Restore failure PM Please respond to red_valsen While attempting to restore an ontape archive, I get this error: Continue restore? (y/n)y Do you want to back up the logs? (y/n)n 16:50:22 shmat: [22]: operating system errorPhysical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 errno 14 Program over. Also, in what may be related, when I attempt to run archecker on the archive, I get this error in the ac_msg log: unable to open a partition file Any likely culprits here? The archive is on a new 100 GB tape from a Seagate Ultrium 1 LTO tape drive. Using Unixware 7.1.3 and IDS 7.30.UC2. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of graycol.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of pic28496.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of ecblank.gif] sending to informix-list