procopy (unable to extend.....)

[mbrown]

Hi all. in using the procopy command to copy a database I get the following errors:

bkioWrite: |seek error 22 on file 5 at -2147483648, file /var/devel/pilot/pilot.db (6081)

unable to extend /var/devel/pilot/pilot enough to proceed.

I am copying our production database to a pilot (test) database. I have done this a hundred times all successful until now. We are on a Dec Unix platform. Is there a file size limit somewhere. I say that because the size of the pilot DB is 2147483648 afte the procopy bombs out. The same number in the above error.

Any help would be appreciated.

Mike.

 

[Chris Kelleher]

Yes your database can not exceed 2GB in size without using multi-volume extents. Create an empty MV database and you'll then be able to copy your production database into it.