Re: DDS-3 tape backup for HP9000

Mike, We're using the HP Omniback DLT, and went from 4-5 hours to the internal 4mm DAT to ~30 minutes on the DLT. It is fast enough that I'm considering dropping the level 1 archives in favour of level 0's run three times per week. The downside is that I'm not too happy with a couple of the "features" of the unit WRT the restore options, and we've found a few bugs in the software. Other than that, we're happy. Our DB is ~50Gb, and it fits fine on a single tape. The single most irritating bug, BTW, is the requirement that you roll forward your logs completely. This is great if you are recovering from a hardware failure, but eliminates the recovery options from fat-fingered statements like 'drop ....'. Not that anybody here would ever do anything like that, of course! (Well, you can bring it back, but Support has to dial in and fix the dbspace flags.) I bring this up not to gripe about the product; it works fine. Rather, if somebody has an alternative I'd like to hear about it. David Mike wrote... > >We have a HP9000-k400 running HPUX 10.01 and Informix 7.13.UC1. We are currently making level 0 archives >to a 90 meter DDS-1. Our current archive is running 7+ hours and 4 tapes. I am exploring the HP SureStore >DDS-3 backup solution with or without the autoloader. > >I am wondering if anyone has any comments on the subject. Like does it work, is this a good solution and >is it compatible with OnLine 7x. I am also interested to know how the tape change is handled by ontape. > >Any thoughts or suggestions on a better solution would be appreciated. Thank you.