RE: ontape -r failed.

Don't know, but putting your 9.40 database back to 9.21, do the restore, then upgrade... (surely you backed up or tar-bundled your 9.2 binaries before the upgrade? (or get them from the 9.2 server). -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of F. David Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:42 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ontape -r failed. Hello, I need help in restoring between different Versions of Informix. We updated one of our two identical datbases from IDS 9.21 to IDS 9.40. Now I need a restore of the 9.21 database into the 9.40 database. I did an ontape -s -L 0 and tried to restore with onmode -k and ontape -r The message I got was: Physical restore failed - function read archive backup failed code -1 errno 0. Does it mean that it is not poosible to restore from Informix 9.21 into 9.40 or do I have to do something else? Thanks for help F. David ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================ sending to informix-list