Re: HP-UX / Informix backup

Posted in 1997

Art S. Kagel — Thu, 09 Oct 1997 18:18:58 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Richard Woolfall wrote: > > Is it possible to direct the ontape archive to a raw disk area (in my > case, > a HP-UX Logical Volume) rather than to a disk file? I imagine this would > overcome the 2Gb limit. (Of course it would not be covered by a Unix > fbackup, > I would then copy the data out to tape by other means). No because ontape has no way to mark the EOF. Art S. Kagel