Re: automating tbtape on Informix V5

Dana Lloyd <danal@austin.ibm.com> writes: >> Dana Lloyd (danal@austin.ibm.com) wrote: >> > I have the tape drive capacity, 7GB, and a sequential >> > mode library to boot. I'm told that tbtape only >> > writes 2.2 GB. >Basically V5, aka tbtape, has a hard stop at 2.2GB. That's just the way >it is according to Informix. Oh well. Now I have to deal with that. I >did get a couple samples from Informix, un-official as all get out and >of course unsupported. This is strange...I routinely back up a 12+ GB database onto _one_ DLT-2000 compressed tape, using tbtape, and have experienced no problems. I'm running Online v5.02UC9 on an RS/6000 under AIX 3.2.5. I did change the max tape size parameter in my tbconfig file, but otherwise I'm not doing anything special. And yes, my backups are of the complete database. I know, I've restored from them. ;) Hope this helps, -Bill wlj@cais.com