Have you seen the <BEWARE> thread running concurrently?
Is your tape drive local or remote?
Was the archive taken using a tape size and booing restored without?

Keith

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: briceavila@hotmail.com [mailto:briceavila@hotmail.com]
-> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 8:33 PM
-> To: informix-list@iiug.org
-> Subject: Re: desperate - weird error during ontape restore
->
->
-> Uh, just learned that TAPESIZE = 0 is new to 9.4. So this is
-> an "Ugh".
->
-> Try archiving/restoring from/to disk, and see if you get the
-> same response. HTH.
->
-> Brice Avila
->
-> briceavila@hotmail.com (Brice Avila) wrote in message
-> news:<c46e3ec5.0408160608.5ab9ea3a@posting.google. com>...
-> > During backup ontape opens a file descriptor and writes until it
-> > reaches TAPESIZE, and then asks for another tape. It
-> doesn't ask for
-> > or get responses from the tape device, so it will not know when it
-> > reaches EOT (end of tape). Change the TAPESIZE parameter to a valid
-> > tape size, and try another backup/restore. Hope this information
-> > helps.
-> >
-> > Brice Avila
-> > Minneapolis, Minnesota
-> >
-> > emebohw@netscape.net (sumGirl) wrote in message
news:<a5e13cff.0408140245.7e3a1de7@posting.google. com>...
> > Ugh. Trying to restore an ontape backup and getting the following
> > error.
> > ---start error info
> > Read/Write End Of Medium enabled: blocks = 99542
> > Please mount tape 2 on /dev/rmt0 and press Return to continue ...
> > <we mount the tape and press enter>
> > Read/Write End Of Medium enabled: missing blocks, expect 99544,
> > processed 99542.
> > Physical restore failed - function buc_fe.c : Archive API processing
> > failed at l
> > ine 791 for msgtype failed code -1 errno 0
> > ---end error info
> >
> > I have determined that its not a bad tape set and the tapes are in the
> > correct order. I have also tried another set of tapes just in case!
> > Relevant onconfig settings:
> >
> > TAPEDEV /dev/rmt0
> > TAPEBLK 256 # Tape block size (Kbytes)
> > TAPESIZE 0 # should use entire tape


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