Re: Informix Backup part II

Allen Jantzen wrote: > > (with apologies to Kalyan for "appropriating" the text of his prior > message) > > We are doing a level 0 archive using ontape. It was working quite fine > for a long time. > Recently we are getting an error after around 70% of it is done ... > The error that we get is > > Archive failed - function write to tape failed code -1 errno 28. > > Does anybody know what the 28 means????? > > Additional question > I know there are lots of variables involved. but can anyone give me a > very ROUGH idea of how long a level-0 archive should take with, say, 7 > or 8 gigs of actual data contained within 16 gigs of disk space (6 > dbspaces, 6 chunks (all mirrored), 5 databases) Dpeneds on many things, including the level of activity on the database at the time of the archive. However, given a pretty fast tape drive and minimal activity, say about an hour to an hour and a half. Neil