Re: DLT tape drive, Ontape and Informix 7.24

dpimpo@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > We would like to know... anyone out there ever use ontape with a dlt tape > drive? If it works, we would like to purchase a tape drive, if not, we do not > want to pay a restocking fee for returning such an expensive purchase. > We do. I back up two database servers to DLT, one to the first archive (/dev/rmt/0), the other to the second on the tape (ie /dev/rmt/0n). David Williams suggested elsewhere in the thread that you just use /dev/rmt/0, and he's right, in that I can't restore directly from the second archive. I've therefore written the larger of my servers' archives to position 1 (or 0!) on the tape, from which I can restore directly. To restore the second server I would first have to dd the archive to disk (or another tape) and restore from there. I've tested this and it works fine. Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK