Re: Informix backup and temporary space

As far as i can tell, when you do a backup with onbar it pulls the data out of each dbspace into a temporary file, then copies that file to tape. (This seems to be true with a whole-system backup anyway - onbar -b -w -L 0 ) Thus, If you have a dbspace with 2Gig of data in it (like we have), you need 2Gig of free space on whatever drive your temporary directory is on. I'm seriously hoping that this changes in the future, as it's becoming a bit of a pain. Note - I'm not sure if you have a 2Gig database space in 2x1Gig chunks whether you need 1Gig or 2Gig of temp space. The only workaround I can think of is changing your TEMP environment variable to point to a drive with more free space Andy - Remove nospam. from address when replying by email - Ren' Skree Jensen wrote in message <6kjb72$cf3$1@news.dknet.dk>... >Can anyone help me? > >I have a Informix Online Workgroup Server 7.23 running on a Windows NT >Server 4.0. When I try to do an Informix backup of the whole system, I get >an error message: > >ERROR: Temporary space is insufficient to perform a backup. Free space in >C:\\WINNT\\ISM34.TMP > >What does it mean? And how can I solve the problem? > > >Best regards > >Ren' Skree Jensen >rsj@geograf-as.dk > >