Re: Place Different Backups in 1 tape?

Erm, I was going to answer this. But you've said it all .... "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in message news:pan.2003.09.10.15.27.27.451028.10594@bloomberg.net... > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:08:26 -0400, antzz wrote: > > I'll assume (dagerously) that your colleague is using hte no-rewind device for > TAPEDEV and/or using mt to position the tape to the next file for each > successive archive and not overwriting the previous archive. This plan works > fine for the archive itself but cannot be used to restore. Informix closes and > reopens the tape device several times at the beginning of the archive expecting > that it will rewind to the beginning of the archive each time. If you use the > norewind device the tape will not rewind when closed. Similarly if you use the > rewind device the when you try to restore the archive levels > 0 the tape will > rewind all the way to the beginning of the level 0 (hence the 'wrong level' > message) not to the beginning of the file. The solution is that before > beginning a restore from such a multi-volume archive you must copy the level 1 > & level 2 to another tape or to a file using dd or some other tape aware tool. > > Art S. Kagel