Re: informix onbar onconfig parameters
garygte@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> I have informix 7.23 installed on an HP-T600 10cpu server with 2gig of
> memory. I am using onbar to backup a 90gig informix instance to a 2 drive
> storagetek DLT box. I have 298 dbspaces. What should I set the BAR_MAX_BACKUP
> onconfig parameter to, to get the best performance? When I had it set to
> zero, the backup failed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This must be set to the same as the storage managers configuration for
the number of backup streams. It is normally set to one stream per
available device. If multiplexing devices are used, set it to the number
of streams each device can support times the number of available
devices.
Cheers,
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Mark.
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