Re: ontape -l tape number always 1? (IDS9.40UC6 on Solaris)
Posted in 2005
sounds like a bug, contact your support provider
carlwu20050316@yahoo.com wrote:
> We recently installed IDS9.40UC6, what's strange is that when using
> "ontape -l" to rollforward logical logs the tape number prompt is
> always "tape 1" when there are multiple volume of tapes. On IDS9.30
it
> was "tape 2, 3, 4, etc".
>
> Since we have some other issues with ontape I would like to know
> whether this is normal behaviour for IDS9.40UC6
>
> The OS version is Solaris 8.
>
> misac9shm@osun9071:/mis/a00/users/informix)ontape -l
>
> Roll forward should start with log number 5
>
> Please mount tape 1 on /mis/a05/backup/misac9/llog/misac9-ltapedev
and
> press Return to continue ...
> Do you want to restore another log tape? (y/n)y
>
> Please mount tape 1 on /mis/a05/backup/misac9/llog/misac9-ltapedev
and
> press Return to continue ...
>
> Do you want to restore another log tape? (y/n)y
>
> Please mount tape 1 on /mis/a05/backup/misac9/llog/misac9-ltapedev
and
> press Return to continue ...
> Do you want to restore another log tape? (y/n)n
>
> Program over.
> misac9shm@osun9071:/mis/a00/users/informix)onstat -
>
> IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 9.40.UC6 -- Quiescent -- Up
> 00:15:40 -- 152576 Kbytes
>
> misac9shm@osun9071:/mis/a00/users/informix).
>
> misaccshm@osun9071:/mis/acc/informix/scripts)uname -a> SunOS osun9071 5.8 Generic_117350-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80
>
>
> Your help is appreciated !
>
>
> Regards,
> Carl Wu