Re: Appending to Informix backup

If you position the tape to the second file, ie past the first archive, ontape will write to the end of the tape. However, ontape, when it restores, opens and closes the tape device several times expecting the tape to rewind to the beginning of the archive. This means that you will not be able to restore the archive without first copying it to the beginning of another tape cartridge. So, what's the point? You MAY save the second tape cartidge if you never need to restore but if you do need to restore, the restore may be delayed several hours while you copy the archive from one tape to another, assuming you have a machine with two tape drives. -- Art S. Kagel Any organism which has ceased to grow, has begun to die. Aik Khoon <panadol@singnet.com.sg> wrote in article <912356AFCBCFD111BE260060972F435F15DB82@treska.tconsult.cz>... > Hello. > > I need to append a NT4.0 backup on top of Informix database > backup (using ontape ) tape. Does this override the existing > informix backup. If not, will the ontape be able to know where > to restore it's previous backup? > > TIA, > Aik Khoon > > >