Re: <!> BEWARE <!>

Just so everyone is aware... It appears that this is a problem if the backup is to a remote device, but not to a local device. "sumGirl" <emebohw@netscape.net> wrote in message news:a5e13cff.0408150251.3446b2f4@posting.google.com... > Beware of this issue everyone. If you set your tapesize to 0 > (supported in 9.4) and attempt to use ontape to recover - it aint > gonna work. Theres a bug in the code that keeps track of the number of > records on each tape and if your restore spans across mor than one > tape, ontape will fail because the record/block counts at the end of > the previous tape and beginning of the next will not match up. > > A man type friend of mine spent the last 20 hours or so fighting this > issue. Informix support ended up having him dump each tape (30+ gig > worth) to disk and then they altered the pages that keep this record > count data - then he dumped the data back to tape and restored. > Essentially support hacked the tapes, but each tape took about an hour > and a half of fiddling before it was even ready top restore. > > Change your tape size to something...anything! While related to a > similar symptom of a bug fixed in UC1 and FC1, this bug is brand new > and support will be working to recreate it their lab soon.