Re: autochangers and ontape

Posted in 1996

Cheryl Kendricks — 18 Apr 1996 08:18:32 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I would also like to here about this so please respond to the informix list. Thanks!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheryl Kendricks Internet:cherylk@prod1.jcdc.doleta.gov OR kendric@gwysmtp.jcdc.doleta.gov OR cherylk@spamis.jcdc.doleta.gov DTSI, Inc. Voice: 1-800-598-5008 Database Administrator - DOL Job Corps San Marcos, Texas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Denise Krefting wrote: > We are purchasing a HP9000 T520 which will have around 80GB of disk > space. 60GB will be for the Online database. We are investigating > the use of autochanger for the tape backups, but I understand that > Informix does not support them. Also, Informix tells me that the max > tape size is 2GB unless it is a streaming device. This would be a lot > of tapes and manual intervention for backups if we can't use an > autochanger. > > Has anyone used an autochanger? > What was your success? > How was it configured? > etc..... > > thanks.......... >