Oninit cdi / Archive
Talk to an expert →

Archive on disk

Posted in 1999

Topics: Server Administration, Platform-Specific Issues, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Paulo Amorim — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hello I'm running IDS 7.30 on a IBM F50 - AIX 4.3.2. We're trying to make a full archive on disk, but it stops at 50% with the following error message: Backup failed - error number 32 (dd write error) The file generated by the archive doesn't go up to the limit of 1.073.741.312 bytes, when the error occurs. The file has permissions 660 and group and owner Informix. Can anybody help me with this problem ???? I'm sure that the problem was not space available on disk (There was enough room, really). These are the onconfig parameters for TAPEDEV: TAPEDEV /usr/informix/archive_dsk # Tape device path TAPEBLK 512 # Tape block size (Kbytes) TAPESIZE 2000000 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes) Thanks in advance. -- Paulo Roberto Marelli de Amorim TS&0 Consulting Brasil Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

↪ replying to Paulo Amorim
Art S. Kagel — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Paulo Amorim wrote: > > Hello > > I´m running IDS 7.30 on a IBM F50 - AIX 4.3.2. > > We´re trying to make a full archive on disk, but it stops at 50% with > the following error message: > Backup failed - error number 32 (dd write error) > > The file generated by the archive doesn´t go up to the limit of > 1.073.741.312 bytes, when the error occurs. The file has permissions Is that 2^30 the ulimit for user informix? Does the file come close, say: 1,073,217,536? This is one block short of the ulimit, ie the engine has determined that the last block will not fit in the ulimit so it exited. If so, the problem may be that you have TAPESIZE set larger than the ulimit. Reduce TAPESIZE to 1000000 or make the ulimit unlimited. Art S. Kagel > 660 and group and owner Informix. > > Can anybody help me with this problem ???? I´m sure that the problem > was not space available on disk (There was enough room, really). > > These are the onconfig parameters for TAPEDEV: > > TAPEDEV /usr/informix/archive_dsk # Tape device path > TAPEBLK 512 # Tape block size (Kbytes) > TAPESIZE 2000000 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape > (Kbytes)> > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Paulo Roberto Marelli de Amorim > TS&0 Consulting > Brasil > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.

Glossary