Labels Stored in Integer Format

Backup Server 12.0 and later stores the stripe number in integer format.

Versions of Backup Server earlier than 12.0 stored the 4-byte stripe number in the HDR1 label in ASCII format. These earlier versions of Backup Server cannot load a dump file that uses the newer dump format. However, Backup Server version 12.0 and later can read and write earlier versions of the dump format.

When performing a dump or load operation involving one or more remote servers, the operation aborts with an error message, if:

The versions of one or more of the remote Backup Servers are earlier than 12.0, and the database is dumped to or loaded from more than 32 stripes, or:
The dump file from which one or more of the Backup Servers are reading during a load is from an earlier version’s format, and the number of stripes from which the database is loaded is greater than 32.