Re: Tape Drive size for Online 5.0
In article <5@bktech.UUCP> markj@bktech.com (Mark Jeske) writes:
>From: markj@bktech.com (Mark Jeske)
>Subject: Re: Tape Drive size for Online 5.0
>Date: 21 Oct 93 03:33:43 GMT
>What are your options?
> 1. Live with the 2gig limit. Specify a tape size of 2gig in
> tbconfig and use more tapes.
If dbexport or tbexport reaches the "end-of-tape" before it has finished, does
it prompt you to insert a new tape and specify the drive, like "cpio -o -O
..."? You could specify /dev/rmt/Xn as your tape drive (n=no rewind) without
unloading the tape and continue writing to the same tape.
At our company, we have several Exabyte drives. As far as I know, the max
tape size is 2.2 Gig and that's big enough for our needs. We don't save
images to tape, because they all wind up getting published on CD-ROM, so we
just need to save non-blob data.