Re: For IFMX GURU : ONTAPE RESTORE Q

"Ashby, David" <David.Ashby@workcover.nsw.gov.au> offerred: + There is one way that I can think of restoring this backup and that +is + to use gzip to write to a pipe and then direct into ontape. Won't work. When ontape opens what it thinks is a tape device, it first reads the tape header to verify that the tape contains a valid backup image. It then closes the tape, which rewinds it. Finally it reopens the tape and begins to read it and do the restore. Because a reading from a pipe "consumes" the data, you can't close the pipe device and reopen it and have the results pick up at the beginning again. Dave ** Dave Kosenko <davek@summitdata.com> ** Director of Training Services (732) 469-4070 ** Summit Data Group (an Informix Authorized Education Center) ** Find my advice useful? Let me teach you everything I know about ** Informix. Sign up for OFFICIAL Informix training at SDG. ** For details, see http://www.summitdata.com/training