Ontape restore problem

When running "ontape -r or -p on server B from a level 0 archive created on server A, I receive message "Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code 1 errno 0". I am using IDS 7.30 UC5 on an NCR MP-RAS 3.02 platform. The archive restore tape drive on server B is a remote tape drive from server A, the creating archive server. The incident on server B is defined identical to the incident on server A for the physical layout of the database; (dbspaces, rootdbs, phylog, temp dbspaces, etc). We are basically putting a point of time snapshot of our databases on a test machine for programming testing/bug fixing. This concept worked fine under 7.24, but not under 7.30. Any suggestions are appreciated! Dave McNight Unix/Informix Administrator Bob Jones University dmcnight@bju.edu

Dave McNight wrote: > > When running "ontape -r or -p on server B from a level 0 archive > created on server A, I receive message "Physical restore failed - > function read archive backup failed code 1 errno 0". I am using IDS 7.30 > UC5 on an NCR MP-RAS 3.02 platform. The archive restore tape drive on > server B is a remote tape drive from server A, the creating archive > server. > The incident on server B is defined identical to the incident on > server A for the physical layout of the database; (dbspaces, rootdbs, > phylog, temp dbspaces, etc). We are basically putting a point of time > snapshot of our databases on a test machine for programming testing/bug > fixing. This concept worked fine under 7.24, but not under 7.30. > Any suggestions are appreciated! > > Dave McNight > Unix/Informix Administrator > Bob Jones University > dmcnight@bju.edu Problem resolved. Informix Tech Support suggested using a local tape drive to restore. Apparently using remote tape device with untrusted users uncovered the problem.