Re: Restoring archive
Posted in 1996
In article <325C78C4.5E3C@sequent.com>, William Hayman
<williamh@sequent.com> writes
>I am trying to restore an Online 5 level 0 archive to a another machine
>as part of a test exercise.
>
>I am pretty sure that I have set up the chunks correctly and the whole
>/usr/informix is from the same time the archive was run so I have got
>the correct tbconfig.
>
>When ever I run tbtape -r I get the following:
>
>"
>Please mount the first system archive tape and press Return to continue
>...
>Restoring system control information, please wait ...
>Tape block size =32 K, total size =2292768 K. Mismatch in config. file.
>"
>
>The funny think is that I have restored from this archive before, the
>only reason I am redoing it is that I made a mistake with the link used
>to create the chunk.
>
>What am I missing???
>
>Thanks
>
>William
Edit $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$TBCONFIG and change
TAPESIZE to 2292768
TAPEBLK to 32
--David Williams