Re: ONTAPE to disk for DBSPACES larger than 2 GB

Hi John, I have the same problem with HPUX-10.20! According to the HP, there is no more file size limit from HP-UX 10.20 onward. Does anyone know the 7.3 will overcome this limit? Regards, Fred Lee fredlee@acm.org John R. Lucker wrote: > I am trying to perform Level 0 archives using ONTAPE to disk. I have > set the "tapesize" parameter in ONCONFIG to be very large (10 GB). I > have made the AIX file system to which the archive is being written a > "Large JFS" file system and I have tested via AIX that I can create a > file larger than 2 GB. But every time I attempt to do an ONTAPE level 0 > archive, I get an error message from ONTAPE indicating that it can't > create the file (error 27) after creating a file on disk that is 1 byte > smaller than 2 GB. > > I am running AIX 4.2.1 and Informix IDS 7.24.UC3. I even received from > informix Tech Support a special release of the ONTAPE command which was > supposed to fix this problem and which was not included in 7.24.UC3 by > accident. > > Has anyone seen this before and have a suggestion on how to get Informix > to break this 2 GB barrier for ONTAPE backups to disk? I am also > pursuing this through Informix Tech Support. > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > John Lucker > CIGNA Reinsurance > John.Lucker@CIGNA.COM