Hi,

I have a problem with informix ontape utility.

the ontape utility worked well until i add a new database to my server.
TAPESIZE parameter in onconfig file was 2048000 , i increase it to
5120000 but the ontape stops as soon as the quantity written reachs
2GB and i have this error message :

Archive failed - function write to tape failed code -1 errno 27

my configuration parameters are :

# System Archive Tape Device

TAPEDEV /app/informix920uc2/ifxbackup/db_bkp.dat # Tape device path
TAPEBLK 16 # Tape block size (Kbytes)
TAPESIZE 5120000 # Maximum amount of data to put on
tape (Kbytes)

is there a problem with TAPEBLK parameter ? may i increase it too ?

Thanks a lot .

As far as I know there is a tapesize limit of 2G in ontape. You need to switch tapes.

Dafna