Re: pyramid 2 gig limit on backup
Posted in 1996
tolly brumbelow wrote:
>
> We run informix backups to a disk dataset on a nightly basis and then
> the disk is copied to tape later. We seem to have ran into a limit on
> the pyramid box that even though our file system is setting on a 4 gig
> disk and the kernel setting for file size is unlimited the backup
> fails when it reaches 2 gig. I was wondering if anyone out there had
> ran into this problem on a pyramid and may know what parameter to tune
> to let us write more than 2 gig into a file a once.
> We are running 6.0 on a Pyramid nile at 1.1-94d079
> Thanks for your help.
What's the value of the following parameters :
TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes)
TAPESIZE 4000000 # Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes)
Espacially the TAPESIZE affects the size that you can backup in a tape (
or file) !!
leo