Our problem is solved : THE COMPRESSION PARAMETER WAS SET TO ON this caused 
problems during the restore.

Updating DSM.SYS was enough to resolve the problem, the backups taking with 
COMPRESSION  ON are however unusable.



Reinhard Mersch wrote:

> I vaguely remember, that ADSM 2.1.0.6 for AIX had a problem when dealing
> with big files, which looks very similar to your's. If I remember right,
> it was resolved with level 0.6I. Anyway, I would try to use level 0.7.
>
> Stefaan Maes writes:
>  >
>  > <P>We try to restore a file of about 800 MB on an IBM/SP2 using ADSM V2.1
>  > level 0.5.
>  >
>  > <P>After a while we get an error SEGMENTATION FAULT (Core Dump), In the
>  > activity log we find the messages ANR8216W and ANR0480W.
>  >
>
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