Re: Size on Ontape Backup

Hi, only pages that have been used up to the time of your archive will be backed up to tape. Newly added chunks will not be copied to your tapes, unless you stored some pages to these chunks. Bye Stefan Weideneder ssoman@omm.com wrote: > > Hi all, > I know that variations of this question have been asked before, but my > question is a little different ( I hope ). I just need to know how the size of > an ontape level 0 backup varies with actual dbspace size. What I mean is, if I > add a new dbspace with 5 chunks, and don't add data to it, will my ontape > bakckup size increase by 10GB ( if 2GB is the size of a chunk ). I'm pretty sure > it doesn't, but I am planning to re-org my database to a large extent, will be > adding new disks, new dbspaces, new chunks etc and I want to accurately > determine the number of tapes needed. Of course, I am not going to leave my > dbspaces empty, I plan to move large tables to their own dbspaces, but I intend > to take one backup with the new dbspaces/chunks before I start the real move. > > Thanks as usual > > Sujata > > ***************************************** > Sujata Soman > > > E-Mail: ssoman@omm.com > > O'Melveny & Myers, Los Angeles > > ******************************************