Re: Informix backup and temporary space

Hi Ren', I've had the same problem at a customer site. I found out, that about 200 MB of free space was needed during the backup (it's freed afterwards). I do not know, why taking a backup needs so much space and I did not find a hint in the documentation (I would be interested in some additional information). Nor do I know if the needed temporary space depends on the size of the DB. If you are really limited on disk space, you may use "ontape" instead of the GUI backup (which is "onbar"). ontape does not need temporyry space on disk, but it is not compatible with onbar and has a command line interface only. Regards Helmut Ren' Skree Jensen wrote: > Can anyone help me? > > I have a Informix Online Workgroup Server 7.23 running on a Windows NT > Server 4.0. When I try to do an Informix backup of the whole system, I get > an error message: > > ERROR: Temporary space is insufficient to perform a backup. Free space in > C:\\WINNT\\ISM34.TMP > > What does it mean? And how can I solve the problem? > > Best regards > > Ren' Skree Jensen > rsj@geograf-as.dk -- Helmut Leininger Bull AG / Vienna Unix Support Email: Helmut.Leininger@bull.net This opinion is mine and not necessarily that of my employer. No guarantees whatsoever.