RE: Raw vs Cooked space?

Downtime? There is not downtime that I know of in what I suggested. ontape -s -l 0 does online back ups.If you backup up your logs to disk then you can put them on the tape after your backup. (tar command works fine for this part) Logical logs backed up to disk are a static entity. If you need more information please e-mail me and I will get it for you. We currently do this in production, one tape, no downtime required for the backup, we get the database and important filesystems. Will >===== Original Message From Paul Jazwierski <uszko@earthlink.net> ===== >We are not a 24X7 operation so we can afford to take the informix down >for 3 hours at night to do the backup, which is what you do, and you are >right my backup cant do all that you said. We are somewhat limited in >our resources and there are hoops we have to jump through. One of them >is that our box has only one tape device. This makes informix backups >with logs backups somewhat cumbersome, although I am modyfing the >process to back up the logical logs to disk. ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------