Hi I'm running a restore of my SAP database but I get the following error messages even though the file system is exactly the same on the DR box as on the one that was backed up. Does anybody have any ideas as to what my problem could be? Thanks.

2003-04-03 18:34:22 9593 6258 ERROR: Unable to write restore data to the datab
ase server: The chunk '/informix/CP1/sapdata/physdev55/data582' will not fit in
the space specified..
2003-04-03 18:34:22 9593 6258 WARNING: Skipped backup/restore of space 'psapco
ep'.
2003-04-03 18:34:24 9593 6258 Process 9593 6258 completed.
2003-04-03 18:34:24 6258 6257 The ON-Bar process 9593 exited with a problem (e
xit code 131 (0x83), signal -1).
2003-04-03 18:35:37 9591 6258 Begin cold level 0 restore psapbt06.
2003-04-03 18:35:43 9591 6258 ERROR: Unable to write restore data to the datab
ase server: The chunk '/informix/CP1/sapdata/physdev60/data736' will not fit in
the space specified..
2003-04-03 18:35:43 9591 6258 WARNING: Skipped backup/restore of space 'psapbt
06'.
2003-04-03 18:35:47 9591 6258 Process 9591 6258 completed.
2003-04-03 18:35:47 6258 6257 The ON-Bar process 9591 exited with a problem (e
xit code 131 (0x83), signal -1).

The best might be to buy a consultant for this
task.

The error message is clear. Check the size of
the specified chunk with dd, i.e.:

dd if=/informix/CP1/sapdata/physdev55/data582 of=/dev/null bs=1024k

This will tell you how large this chunk is (in MB).
Compare this value to the chunks sizes on your production machine where you took the backup.

We have now two consultants, and it does seem to be an O/S / Hardware fault as there are error messages being recorded in the /var/adm/message file concerning read errors on the disk identified by the bar_act.log.
Thanks for the responce. Once the problem is resolved I'll update the message.