Hi All,

I have Informix v10.00.UC6 installed on AIX v5.3 ML 5. When i try to backup the logical log using the command "ontape -c" I get the following message

aix:/home/informix>ontape -c

Performing continuous backup of logical logs.

Please mount tape 1 on /dev/rmt0 and press Return to continue ...


Tape is full ...

Please label this tape as number 1 in the log tape sequence.

This tape contains the following logical logs:
40 (partial)

Please mount tape 2 on /dev/rmt0 and press Return to continue ... ^C
Interrupt received ...

Logbackup failed - Log backup terminated prematurely.


Program over.

The setting on the onconfig file is as follows

LTAPEDEV /dev/rmt0 # Log tape device path

LTAPEBLK 32 # Log tape block size (Kbytes)

LTAPESIZE 10240 # Max amount of data to put on log tape (Kbytes)


I have tested the tape drive by running a tar command to copy a single file and that was successful. After this i erased the tape to make its a blank tape that use for this logical backup. However, the result seems to suggest otherwise.

Any ideas on what might be the problem?

Appreciate your time.

-Raghavan

Try set LTAPESIZE to 0 .
With this configuration IDS will be try use the fully tape..

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...c/adref110.htm

Hi Ceinma,

Thanks for getting back to me on this.

Yes, as you have mentioned i can either set the LTAPESIZE to 0 or to the size of the tape thats getting loaded. This resolved the issue.

Appreciate your help