RE: Can I perform a Level-0 back-up onto a Disk using ontape ?

Posted in 2000

Topics: Backup & Restore, Logging & Checkpoints

Murray Wood — Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:25:18 +1300 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Yes. As long as the archive is less than 2Gb. (A limit of lseek). Create the file and chmod 660 and informix informix. Murray Wood -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Paul Jazwierski Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 11:39 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Can I perform a Level-0 back-up onto a Disk using ontape ? It might also be necessary to set the atributes for the file to 664 informix informix. That's what I had to do for log backups to disk per friendly advice of a newsgroup reader.

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June Tong — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:56:17 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Murray Wood wrote: > > Yes. As long as the archive is less than 2Gb. (A limit of lseek). Create > the file and chmod 660 and informix informix. Ontape doesn't use lseek, AFAIK. The limitation of 2GB was due to an incorrectly coded call to ulimit(), which should have been fixed somewhere in 7.2x. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Living on Snickers bars in San Mateo

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Art S. Kagel & Family — Thu, 16 Mar 2000 14:26:02 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

June Tong wrote: > > Murray Wood wrote: > > > > Yes. As long as the archive is less than 2Gb. (A limit of lseek). Create > > the file and chmod 660 and informix informix. > > Ontape doesn't use lseek, AFAIK. The limitation of 2GB was due to an > incorrectly coded call to ulimit(), which should have been fixed > somewhere in 7.2x. IDS 9.21 will have >2GB support in all utilities including ontape. -- Art S. Kagel & Family kagel@erols.com

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