Re: Multiple Archive Tapes

On 9 May 1997, Harold Trammel wrote: > Our Online system is getting new data 16-20 hours out of each day. We > cannot afford to take users off the database to let us do backups (that > is one reason why we have Online). The problem is that in the 1-2 hours > it takes for us to make one backup, the users have entered new data and > the second tape will not contain the same data. In addition, the second > backup will remove the logical log(s) that will have been created > between the first and second backup. This can cause problems with > restoration of the Online system. > > I cannot add a second tape drive for several reasons. How do others > solve this problem? Do you have enough disk space to do Level-0 to disk followed by dumping the L-0 to tape (second step twice)? One advantage to this is that going to disk saves a lot of the time in which your logs may fill up. -Richard