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Beware of this issue everyone. If you set your tapesize to 0 (supported in 9.4) and attempt to use ontape to recover - it aint gonna work. Theres a bug in the code that keeps track of the number of records on each tape and if your restore spans across mor than one tape, ontape will fail because the record/block counts at the end of the previous tape and beginning of the next will not match up. A man type friend of mine spent the last 20 hours or so fighting this issue. Informix support ended up having him dump each tape (30+ gig worth) to disk and then they altered the pages that keep this record count data - then he dumped the data back to tape and restored. Essentially support hacked the tapes, but each tape took about an hour and a half of fiddling before it was even ready top restore. Change your tape size to something...anything! While related to a similar symptom of a bug fixed in UC1 and FC1, this bug is brand new and support will be working to recreate it their lab soon.

Do you have a case number associated with this issue? Also, which tech support group is working with the customer? "sumGirl" <emebohw@netscape.net> wrote in message news:a5e13cff.0408150251.3446b2f4@posting.google.com... > Beware of this issue everyone. If you set your tapesize to 0 > (supported in 9.4) and attempt to use ontape to recover - it aint > gonna work. Theres a bug in the code that keeps track of the number of > records on each tape and if your restore spans across mor than one > tape, ontape will fail because the record/block counts at the end of > the previous tape and beginning of the next will not match up. > > A man type friend of mine spent the last 20 hours or so fighting this > issue. Informix support ended up having him dump each tape (30+ gig > worth) to disk and then they altered the pages that keep this record > count data - then he dumped the data back to tape and restored. > Essentially support hacked the tapes, but each tape took about an hour > and a half of fiddling before it was even ready top restore. > > Change your tape size to something...anything! While related to a > similar symptom of a bug fixed in UC1 and FC1, this bug is brand new > and support will be working to recreate it their lab soon.