Re: Multiple DAT Drive Backup

In article <904221680.12617.0.nnrp-10.9e987eaf@news.demon.co.uk>, paul.wheeler@leaderflushshapland.co.uk (Paul Wheeler) wrote: > We have just toppled the the 4Gbyte capacity of our HP9000 DDS2 Dat > drive > during our informix Level 0 backup. (ontape -s -L 0). Subsequently the > ontape> command prompts for a second tape some 40 minutes into the backup > procedure. > > We have a secondary DAT device attached to our HP9000 server which is > currently > unused. Is there a possibility of utilising both DAT drives to > complete the > backup process > without the requirement of user-intervention to swap the tapes. > > Another approach we have thought of is to enable compression on our > primary > DAT drive > thereby giving us a maximum 8Gbyte capacity. The issue here is that > there > is no guaranteed > compression ratio and therefore the tape capacity is variable. How > would > this be specified > in the tape parameters? > > Any help here would be greatly appreciated. > > Paul. > > > Does HP support tape striping' cos if it does then that's the easiest way. Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 #