RE: Ontape archiving to disk

in-pipe compress using gzip: mkfifo my-pipe configure TAPEDEV=my-pipe gzip --to-stdout --verbose <my-pipe | dd of=some-tape bs=32k & ontape -s -L 0multiple files: touch bkp-file-1 bkp-file-2 bkp-file-3 ... ln -s bkp-file-1 bkp-dev-link configure TAPEDEV=bkp-dev-link configure TAPESIZE=size-as-you-need ontape -s -L 0 ... and redirect bkp-dev-link when requested to change the tape Can you tell me the limitation bug number? HTH Vasek > -----Original Message----- > From: LVance [SMTP:lvance@home.com] > Posted At: Monday, August 03, 1998 11:06 PM > Posted To: comp.databases.informix > Conversation: Ontape archiving to disk > Subject: Ontape archiving to disk > > We currently run ontape for several of our Informix database and write > the > output to disk. We have run into a problem when the file size exceeds > 2G. > We know the limitation is a bug in online dynamic server 7.23 uc1. > What I > need is a work around to do either an in-pipe compress or multiple > files to > disk (can be done by setting the LTAPESIZE parameter). I have not had > much > success with either. Can anyone offer any ideas that might help? > > Thank you in advance, > L Vance >