I have tried using the pipe/uncompress, uncompress to file and then restore, backup to disk directly from ontape and always get the message that the file is corrupted. I have not changed the block size as I don't feel comfortable with that. It just takes a long time to restore an archive and then the Logical logs.

Tom Wallin

I've had problems with the pipe/compress method also. What works for me:

in the onconfig file:
set TAPEDEV $INFORMIXSERVER.tape
set TAPESIZE 2048000

in one window: ontape -s -L 0


When it asks for a second tape:
open a second window:
mv $INFORMIXSERVER.tape $INFORMIXSERVER.lvl0.tape1
touch $INFORMIXSERVER.tape


Press enter key in the firs window:

repeat this until (incrementing the tape#) until the archive is complete. When it's complete, you can compress/gzip the tape files

Does this method allow you to restore? I was mainly trying to do this backup/restore on the Logical Logs.

Tom Wallin