Re: Appending to Informix backup

Art Kagel wrote: >If you position the tape to the second file, ie past the first archive, ontape will write to >the end of the tape. However, ontape, when it restores, opens and closes the tape >device several times expecting the tape to rewind to the beginning of the >archive. This means that you will not be able to restore the archive without first copying >it to the beginning of another tape cartridge. Hmmm. I can't see any reason why ontape would open and close the tape device several times on the restore. Last time I looked (admittedly, quite a while ago), I don't think that was the case, and using a no-rewind tape device would only bomb when you went to a second tape (and that because the archive process closed and re-opened, not the restore process). But I'm getting old, and my memory isn't what it used to be. Hum hum hum, wonder how I'd test that... Anyway, I think the original question dealt with putting the NT backup after the ontape backup. In that case, you REALLY have to worry about what the NT backup process is doing, not ontape. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Lost in the wilds of Palo Alto, living on Peanut M&M's