Re: Difference between ONARCHIVE and ONTAPE?

Chuanlarp Satchavarodom wrote: > > ... and in which circumstatance should I use onarchive instead of ontape. In my opinion you shouldn't use onarchive instead of ontape. onarchive does, unlike ontape, support the writing of archives and backups to disk, and on the face of it this is its major advantage. Although it works perfectly OK, Informix do not support writing logs/archives to disk because it's all to easy to overwrite files that were actually wanted. With onarchive you can't, theoretically, overwrite files that are still wanted. In my experience, onarchive is so unreliable, prone as it is to myseterious failures, particularly in its continuous log option, and liable to pack up becuase of bizzare inconsistencies between catalog and reality, that a careful archive-to-disk strategy using ontape is far less difficult to administer. Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK neil.truby@chase.com