ontape fails via pipe

Hi group, we've always been doing backup/restore to disk using ontape in our development-system. As dbspaces were growing, a few years ago we've hit the 2 GB-file-size-limit. (BTW, I've never understood how UNIX can read from bigger 'files' on tape but not on disk). So, what we did was easy: ontape to disk via pipes. This always worked fine (again, what I don't understand:) and we had the possibility to do additional work like compress, .... Hovever, since we've upraded to 7.30 we've experienced, that ontapes to pipe can't be restored any more. Ontape complains about invalid tape format. It isn't possible to restore either, if we write the file onto a tape and restore from there. Has anyone ideas, what has changed? -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/ Mag. Peter Kolmhofer __ _ _____ _/ _/_/ Informix & DB2 DBA __ --/_|___\\______ _/ _/_/ Porsche Informatik (Austria) _ _ ( _ _ \\) _/ _/_/ A-5101 Bergheim, Handelszentrum 7 -(_)-------(_)- _/ _/_/ +43 662 4670-6258 fax: -6501 email:kop@porsche.co.at _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/