OnArchive questions

Posted in 1996

Eric Sze — 26 Apr 1996 06:01:46 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

For Q1, I tried ok. Thanks. "apart" means that only one save set is written per volume. Without the "apart", save sets are simply appended end to end on a volume (e.g. DBT1) until there is no space left on the volume. EricSze In article <01bb3281.6890a320$232cb984@aussie1.radio.bbc.co.uk>, Dave Harding <HARDID02@bh.bbc.co.uk> wrote: >Eric, > I can help with Q1, see below.. > >You can reuse tapes by removing the requests that create them. Say for >example you create request 1, an archive onto tape DBT1, request 2 is an >archive onto tape DBT2 and request 3 is an archive onto tape DBT3. If you >"remove/request=1" using OnArchive you will free tape DBT1 for re-use. >May I ask why you are using the "apart" keyword on your archives?