Re: informix backup manual vs cron

Of course, that may not be an issue if she's using a DLT...the sysadmin did a test and claimed about 100GB per tape on one of those things. Not too many of our databases will fill that one up. (Only thing that beats it is June Tong's tape... ;-) David }Cosmo wrote... }One thing to be apprised of is that if you're using `ontape` and your }backup requires more than one tape, at the end of the first tape }`ontape` will sit there eatting up CPU cycles (it doesn't just sit there }politely, waiting . . .) trying to access the second tape, until you }give it a second one. If you redirect output to a file, `ontape` will }proceed to simply fill it up - not good if you have space constrictions.