Re: Re:
--- "Impy" <wlinden@stritch.edu> > wrote: > >"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message >news:8s3ven$cl1$1@news.xmission.com... >> From: Carlos Benjamin <benj@firstlinux.net> >> >--- David Kulkarni <dnk61@yahoo.com> >> > > wrote: >> > >I have been trying to export our database to a DLT tape drive, the data >> >base is 32 GIGs but after >> > >about an hour its asking me for next tape. The tape has a capacity of >> >19.5 gigs....can anybody >> > >tell me where I am going wrong. >> >You're not putting in the next tape? >> >There's a couple of problems I see here..... >> > >> >Your database is 32(BIG)GIGs >> >Your tape is only 19.5(little)gigs >> > >> >Trying to put all thos BIG GIGS into little gig holes will probably >stretch >> >your tape all out of shape. Plus, there's more BIG GIGs in your database >> >than there are little gig spaces on the tape. Now, if you had it the >> >reverse, using little gigs on your database and BIG GIGs on your tape, >you >> >might be able to cram two or three little gigs into each BIG GIG space on >> >the tape. But I don't have an answer for your particular situation. >> >> They say that for sarcasm to be at its most effective, it should lightly >> etch a phrase, not drip from every syllable. But I think you've just >proven >> them wrong. > >Ok, so, um, do these rules apply to migs and MIGS? How about pigs and PIGs >or even wigs and WIGS? What if I wanted to cram pig in a WIG, would that >work? While on the surface it would seem that cramming a (little)pig into a (BIG)WIG wouldn't be much trouble, you must understand that you're now comparing apples and oranges (actually pigs and WIGS) rather than apples to APPLES and oranges to ORANGES. Because of this, a little pig might be too BIG for a BIG WIG, no matter how many BIG WIGS you may have thought were pigs. Dig? == Maintainer of the procrastinator's FAQ. Well, maybe tomorrow I will be. _____________________________________________________________ Want a new web-based email account ? ---> http://www.firstlinux.net