Re: View Archive Tapes

Paul Mahoney (ptm@xact.demon.co.uk) wrote: : I ascii information at the begining of tapes does not give full information. : Would someone from informix please publish the structure of the tape header : so I can write a small program to display: : Date of archive : Type of archive (Log, Level 0,1,2...) : Part of archive (part 1 part 2 ...) : Should I succeed, I'll post the code to the net. : Better still, would Informix add a switch to ontape to display header : information. Doesn't ontape do that if you do an ontape -r? You could just run this, see the tape contents, and then don't continue with the restore.