Re: (Another) ontape to recover from a FIFO pipe

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:05:55 -0400, Jacob Salomon wrote: Like Jonathan said, errno's differ from OS to OS, and errnos over 32 are more variable than smaller ones which mostly were inherited unchanged from BSD 1.0. Here's a quick survey for 72 on the OSes I use: HP: Error number: 72 Message: Value too large to be stored in data type IBM: Error number: 72 Message: Software caused connection abort Sun: Error number: 72 Message: Locked lock was unmapped Linux: Error number: 72 Message: Multihop attempted The HP version sounds like what you ran into. Art S. Kagel > I wrote back to Andy: >>My one big doubt is that the flat file is about 79GB in length and we all >>know how Informix (especially my 7.23 clunker) handles files longer than >>2GB. Was your flat archive file similarly humongous? > > Well, Andy, > > it looks the doubts I had before were for naught. I didn't get anywhere that > far in the restore directly from the file. I changed TAPEDEV to the target > file (it was never compressed) and started the ontape: > > $ ontape -r> > Please mount tape 1 on /inf_archive/archives/archive.L0 and press Return to > continue ... > > The file is there, of course, so I simply press the Return key. Immediately, > it comes back with: > > Physical restore failed - function open tape device > /inf_archive/archives/archive.L0 failed code -1 errno 72 > > What is error 72? finderr 72 says: > > -72 Not a stream device. > > WHADAYAMEAN not a stream device?!! When I was teaching the class we always > used flat file for the TAPEDEV and never encountered this error on the > restore. <SNIP>