Re: Question on the Archive TAPEDEV size

Posted in 1997

Mark Collins — 2 Dec 1997 21:18:30 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> I hope that the 2 GB limit for HP would be eliminated in the future -- > and it is great that it does not seem to be a problem elsewhere. Have > you ever restored from beyond the 2 GB mark to make sure it is really > there? I have, on two different HPs. On one of them the ontape archive was on one tape, but was more than 2 GB. On the other, the archive stretched across two tapes. TAPESIZE was 4000000 on each machine. HP-UX 9.04, ODS 7.10.UC2 and 7.10.UC3. Mark Collins mcollins@us.dhl.com The problem lies in how easily and dangerously we forget that manipulating things is not the same as understanding them.