Re: Failed when restoring a single dbspace with ontape

Posted in 1996

Dave Rattanni — Thu, 9 May 1996 17:05:34 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Bjarne W. Jensen Alm. Brand Denmark writes: >Can any one help me with this |? >I am running Informix OnLine 7.11 on AIX and I made a level 0 >backup. That was ok, but when I tried to restore a single dbspace >from that backup received the following error. >Space to restore:1 dx_sysproc_dbs >Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 errno 5 I've seen a similar error message during an archive where an Informix write failed. We replaced the drive and the problem went away. In your case, I'd make sure that your tape drive blocking factor is correctly as specified Informix onconfig file. Regards, Dave