Re: checking ontape -s -L

Posted in 1999

Daniel Willems — Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:46:21 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Our tape device does hardwarecompression. We dump 11 chunks of 2 GB on a 20GB tape (DLT IV tape device) Sean Kelsey <chilliinc@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:36b870b4.0@145.227.194.253... >As far as I know ( and I only can speak of one instance on an IBM AIX box >running 7.24 ), ontape doesn't use any compression - we tried it on a 4GB >tape device, cheecked the size of the instance ( about 4.5GB ) and sure >enough, took more than one tape to archive the entire database. > >Sean