RE: ontape -r problems

Posted in 1999

Rock, Howard — Fri, 24 Sep 1999 13:56:20 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi ... I turn to this group in despare ... I can't seem to get 'ontape -r' to restore. I've experimented with a lot of different settings in the onconfig file; and now I do get to backup the data to tape - but restoring will not work. I run Informix v. 7.30 UC6, the tape device is a DLT III-XT. I would greatly appretiate getting av copy of any working $INFORMIXDIR/etc/onconfig file :-) Yours, Tore Guttormsen tore.guttormsen@nospam.sds.no (exclude 'nospam') I had a similar problem and it turned out that the tape block size in the onconfig file was different from the tape block size in the Unix configuration. I believe that if these 2 are not identical a backup will be created but you will not be able to restore from it.