Ontape restore from 7.24.X to 7.30.X fails

We are trying to restore a backup using ontape. The current database engine is IDS 7.30, but our ontape backup is from a IDS 7.24 system. When I start the backup, It asks for the tape to be mounted, reads the tape header, and then fails with "Memory Fault". I was sure that we should be able to restore an older version to a newer engine. Any thoughts. Thanks, Marc Hopkins

Marc Hopkins wrote: > > We are trying to restore a backup using ontape. The current database engine > is IDS 7.30, but our ontape backup is from a IDS 7.24 system. When I start > the backup, It asks for the tape to be mounted, reads the tape header, and > then fails with "Memory Fault". I was sure that we should be able to > restore an older version to a newer engine. Any thoughts. > > Thanks, > Marc Hopkins My understanding is that the restoration of an archive created with an older version to newer version should be within the same subrelease (7.24.uc1 to 7.24.uc5, for example). I'm not sure that what you are trying to do would work. -- John Carlson Informix DBA WHSmith USA #include std_disclaimer.h /* These are my opinions, not my company's opinion */

Marc Hopkins wrote: > We are trying to restore a backup using ontape. The current database engine > is IDS 7.30, but our ontape backup is from a IDS 7.24 system. When I start > the backup, It asks for the tape to be mounted, reads the tape header, and > then fails with "Memory Fault". I was sure that we should be able to > restore an older version to a newer engine. Any thoughts. You were incorrect. You can only restore to the same version which was used to take the archive. See my Unofficial FAQ at http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/4578/faq.html -- the archiving section contains this exact question. Don't know if it's in the IIUG FAQ (David?) but it probably should be. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Back from the dead, resuscitated by Godiva chocolates... Please do not send Informix questions to this account. I would add 'Please do not send spam to this account' but I suppose I would be wasting my bits.

In article <387A4AE0.7A253B60@hotmail.com>, June Tong <june_t@hotmail.com> writes >Marc Hopkins wrote: > >> We are trying to restore a backup using ontape. The current database engine >> is IDS 7.30, but our ontape backup is from a IDS 7.24 system. When I start >> the backup, It asks for the tape to be mounted, reads the tape header, and >> then fails with "Memory Fault". I was sure that we should be able to >> restore an older version to a newer engine. Any thoughts. > >You were incorrect. You can only restore to the same version which was used to >take the archive. > >See my Unofficial FAQ at >http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bridge/4578/faq.html -- the archiving >section contains this exact question. Don't know if it's in the IIUG FAQ >(David?) but it probably should be. > Not sure but it will be there by next Monday. This weekend I really WILL get a new version of the FAQ with all pending updates out. ^^^^ I have posted a new version of dbdiff2.4gl but it has gone quietly unnoticed. Can I take over development of dbdiff2?? PS Well back June PSS From 17 Jan (THIS monday)- 1st Feb I will be found in Runaway Bay Jamaica!! My first real holiday since I was 2!! PPPS Yes, I am taking 3 books on Java and JDBC will me! PPPPS 2 weeks without a computer, I've never done that since I was 12 Arrrgh! Online...where are you..onmode -yuk Arrgh, shutting down... >June >-- >june_t@hotmail.com >Back from the dead, resuscitated by Godiva chocolates... PPPPPS Well back June!! Hurrah, you're back, miss me?.... > >Please do not send Informix questions to this account. >I would add 'Please do not send spam to this account' >but I suppose I would be wasting my bits. > > -- David Williams

> PPPS Yes, I am taking 3 books on Java and JDBC will me! Sick, David. > >Back from the dead, resuscitated by Godiva chocolates... > PPPPPS Well back June!! Hurrah, you're back, miss me?.... 'Course I did, luv. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Back from the dead, resuscitated by Godiva chocolates... Please do not send Informix questions to this account.