Re: Accessing remote tape drive

Posted in 1997

Richard Stanford — Mon, 7 Jul 1997 13:49:03 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On 3 Jul 1997, Marco Greco wrote: > BTW, for the wish list, Tim: > wouldn't it be nice if tbtape (and ontape for that matter) had -t/-b/-s > flags like dbexport/import & tbunload/load, so that I don't have to stop > the engine, edit tbconfig to specify a new device, restart the engine, > archive, restop the engine, restore the original tbconfig and restart > the engine for the third time, whenever I want to archive to some other > device? Er, this only applies for logical backups (ie: continuous logging). You can change TAPEDEV at any time without requiring an engine bounce. -Richard