RE: Problem with ontape

Hi Heinz. Too late ? How about decrease TAPEBLK ? ie) Change TAPEBLK 128 to 16 or 32. Regards. -- Tsutomu Ogiwara from Tokyo Japan. > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:56:18 +0100 > From: Heinz.Weitkamp@westfleisch.de > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Problem with ontape > > Hello, > > Subject: Problem to make a full level 0 backup of my Database with > ontape -s.> > I use Informix Dynamic Server Version 7.31 on a Linux Suse 10 > distribution. > I want to make a level 0 backup on a tape on Server test4. > > Here`s an extract of my onconfig file: > TAPEDEV /dev/st0 #Tape device path > TAPEBLK 128 #Tape block size (Kbytes) > TAPESIZE 20000000 #Maximum amount of data to put on tape (Kbytes)> > The Read/Write Permissions for ontape: > -rwsr-sr-x 1 root informix 1330659 Nov 7 16:08 ontape* > > When i was trying to run ontape -s -L 0 i receive the following > message after pressing return to continue: > Could not write archive tape. > > And then after a few seconds there is an abnormal system hang-up and i > must restart the system. > I tried this on several Linux Suse 10 Servern, with different tapes and > with different tape units. > It`s every time the same problem: I receive the message "could not > write archive tape" and a few moments later the system hang-up. > > After this i try to do a remote backup from test1 (another Linux Server > with tihe same IDS and SUSE Version as test4) > to test4 and i adjust the onconfig file like this: > > TAPEDEV test4:/dev/st0 #Tape device path> > With this configuration it works, but the tape unit is still at the > Linux Suse System (which is here test4). > Why works it when i approach the system remote from remote and why i > receive an system hang-up end when i try the same thing directly on the > Linux Suse Distribution ? > > (With tar i can write to tape without any trouble.) > > Any suggestion is welcomed. > > Heinz > > -- > WESTFLEISCH eG * Hauptsitz: Brockhoffstr. 11, 48143 Münster > Amtsgericht Münster: Gen.-Reg. 307 > > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Heinz Westkämper > Vorstand: Dirk Niederstucke, Peter Piekenbrock, Josef Lehmenkühler, Dr. > Bernd Cordes, Dr. Helfried Giesen > > Hinweise: Es können nur Mails bis 30 MB empfangen werden. > PowerPoint-Dateien müssen in eine ZIP-Datei gepackt werden. > -------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list _________________________________________________________________ 【女性版ビリー？】話題の自宅燃焼系！美しく健康的なくびれをゲット！ http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/112813569/direct/01/