Article 121446 of comp.os.vms: In article <01bc3dbd$c1ea6ad0$040110ac@naked>, "Ruslan R. Laishev" wrote: >Fernando Melgar wrote in article ><97Mar11.175359gmt-0500.14353-1@firegmd.gmd.com.pe>... >> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not >understand >> this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. >> >> ------ =_NextPart_000_01BC2E45.B1A6A1C0 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> >> Hi there, >> >> I'm doing a standalone backup, and it fails every time on the same >> disk with the message: >> >> %BACKUP-F-ALLOCMEM, error allocating virtual memory, >> >> -LIB-F-INSVIRMEM, insufficient virtual memory, >> >> I've increased VIRTUALPAGECNT and pgflquota of SYSTEM account in the >> AUTHORIZE, but nothing helped. >> >> Does anybody have any suggestion? >> > Increase your pagefiles.sys by @sys$update:swapfiles.com. >-- >--- >@RRL, Best regards. >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >CB "Petrovskiy", EDP Departement, |198013, Russia,St.Petersburg, >Chief Consultant | Ruzovskaya 8 St. >I-net:laishev@host1.petrobank.spb.su | Phone:(812) 316-6265 >Fido :2:5030/279 | Fax: (812) 316-5765 >--------------------------------------------------------------------- This happened to me in the past; DEC technical support provided the answer. What you need to do is set various parameters higher specifically for standalone backup, depending on how much memory you have. Change the appropriate device names and numeric values as appropriate for your system and you should be able to do the backup successfully. >>> B/E0000001 DKA400: SYSBOOT> SHOW VIRTUALPAGECNT SYSBOOT> SET VIRTUALPAGECNT 100000 SYSBOOT> SHOW PQL_DPGFLQUOTA SYSBOOT> SET PQL_DPGFLQUOTA 32768 SYSBOOT> CONTINUE Alternately, you can set things more permanently from DCL so that you wouldn't have to do the manual procedure above each time you did a standalone backup: $ MCR SYSGEN SYSGEN> USE USER7:[SYS0.SYSEXE]VAXVMSSYS.PAR SYSGEN> SHOW VIRTUALPAGECNT SYSGEN> SET VIRTUALPAGECNT 100000 SYSGEN> SHOW PQL_DPGFLQUOTA SYSGEN> SET PQL_DPGFLQUOTA 32768 SYSGEN> WRITE USER7:[SYS0.SYSEXE]VAXVMSSYS.PAR SYSGEN> EXIT Good luck. -- Ken Ho ken_ho@Harvard.edu