restoring to a different server

I'm running Informix 7.31 on an HP-UX server. We do nightly backups using ontape and I just set up a Linux server running Informix 7.30 and I want to restore the backup to this server. Both tape drives are the same (HP Sure Store) and I have all the db spaces and chunks set up the same. When I do an ontape -r I get the following error: "Physical restore failed -function read archive backup fail code -1 errno 75" I can tar files from one server and tar them back on to the new server, but I can't do it using ontape. Anyone know what these error codes mean or how I can accomplish this? Thanks, Paul Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

Paul wrote: > > I'm running Informix 7.31 on an HP-UX server. We do nightly backups > using ontape and I just set up a Linux server running Informix 7.30 and > I want to restore the backup to this server. Both tape drives are the > same (HP Sure Store) and I have all the db spaces and chunks set up the > same. When I do an ontape -r I get the following error: "Physical > restore failed -function read archive backup fail code -1 errno 75" I > can tar files from one server and tar them back on to the new server, > but I can't do it using ontape. Anyone know what these error codes mean > or how I can accomplish this? You cannot use ontape or onbar to migrate a server to a different version or to a different platform. You will have to use dbexport/dbimport to move the database to the Linux server from the HPUX server. If you cannot deal with dbexport's insistence on locking the entire database to accomplish this get my dbexport/dbimport replacement utility, myexport. Myexport uses Jonathan Leffler's sqlcmd package and my dbschema replacement, myschema, which is in the package utils2_ak. All three packages are available from the IIUG Software Repository. Art S. Kagel