Re: Question on the Archive TAPEDEV size

Posted in 1997

Neil Truby — Tue, 25 Nov 1997 21:46:51 +0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Nils Myklebust wrote: > > I have the tape size set to 4000000 which means 4 Gigabyte. > That works fine. > > It's claimed here in c.d.i. from time to time that the max size of the > tape drive is 2 GB. That is wrong. What do you think all the people > with DLT or other large tape drives do? > Exactly. I've got mine set to 20000000 (20GByte). I'm using a 40GByte DLT drive. No problems, and I know my archives are around 6GBytes, 'cos sometimes I onarchive them to disk. On the subject of DLTs, I've just been told by Informix Tech Support in the UK that they don't support the use of DLTs, except with onbar, under Solaris! Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK