Re: Managing large log tapes
Posted in 2000
Obnoxio The Clown — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
From: "Andy Kent" <andykent.bristol.DontSpamMe@virgin.net>
>
>Client has 80GB tape drives and wants to use continuous log backup, with
>ontape for the time being. Although he will also be doing daily level 0
>archives, so he shouldn't have massive rollforwards, he is concerned that
>if
>he has to roll forward while the log tape had got near to its end, it could
>take IDS a long time to locate which logs it needs to roll forward.
>
>Does anyone have any sagely advice they could add to this situation?
Get a smaller tape drive? :-)
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