Ontape 7.10 - Alpha box - Can Not Restore

Posted in 1997

Taufan Erawan — Wed, 31 Dec 1997 08:52:03 +0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

We have problem on restoring data from tape (using ontape -s L0) ..... once we have a restore test and work fine .... later when we had a power failure and want to restore the data (ontape -r) and none of our 5 set back-up can be restored ... Media corrupted msg. (all the tape has been " archeker " after back-p and no error) ... informix eng. suggest to upgrade to 7.23 as the ontape 7.10 might not reliable (?) ... it is not easy to upgade because we run SAP application. Now what we do is Unload the DB every day !! for back-up . Anybody has a idea what's problem on this. (we use Dec Alpha 2100 OSF 3.2 Informix 7.10)