Re: Compression-enabled tape archiving

You are right in noting about the compression form archiving under Informix. What I've performed in various Unix installation is as follows: 1. Create a process to listen at one end of a pipe queue. This process will compress the data (using compress or pack utility) coming out of the queue and dump it to the archiving tape 2. Use tbtape or ontape and start backing up the database on to the pip queue. I've successfully adopted this method on several Gbs of data and restored the media more than once. You may like to think of this method. Cheers Ramaji