Re: HP/UX and Archives

At 01:52 AM 11/24/94 GMT, Joe Lumbley wrote: >Tbtape writes all of its archive in one open() statement, making it >subject to the file size limit. It's usually pretty easy to have HP >make some changes that will up the limit to at least 4GB (they need >to use longs rather than ints in their seek routines), but unless Informix >has changed their algorithms, you probably can't get any more data on the >DAT. > >I've seen some info to the contrarary. Is anyone getting (and restoring >from) more than 4GB tapes? > I've been able to successfully backup and restore upto 7.5GB onto 8mm compression drives, albeit on a Sequent. Jon ================================================================== Jon Vemo Internet: jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch out for road-kill on the information superhighway....SPLAT!! ==================================================================