Re: Multiple DAT Drive Backup
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 13:40:58 +0100, in article
<904221680.12617.0.nnrp-10.9e987eaf@news.demon.co.uk>, "Paul Wheeler"
<paul.wheeler@leaderflushshapland.co.uk> wrote:
>We have just toppled the the 4Gbyte capacity of our HP9000 DDS2 Dat drive
>during our informix Level 0 backup. (ontape -s -L 0). Subsequently the
>ontape>command prompts for a second tape some 40 minutes into the backup procedure.
>
>We have a secondary DAT device attached to our HP9000 server which is
>currently
>unused. Is there a possibility of utilising both DAT drives to complete the
>backup process
>without the requirement of user-intervention to swap the tapes.
>
>Another approach we have thought of is to enable compression on our primary
>DAT drive
>thereby giving us a maximum 8Gbyte capacity. The issue here is that there
>is no guaranteed
>compression ratio and therefore the tape capacity is variable. How would
>this be specified
>in the tape parameters?
>
>Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Get LoneTar. It does multiple drive backups.
The other tar products do too I believe.
CTAR
BackupEdge
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