Re: ontape : TAPESIZE question

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:37:49 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

informix@rexel.fr wrote: > Hi everybody, > Is there an upper limit to the TAPESIZE parameter and can "ontape" archive = > more than 2=20 > Gbytes ? This may be platform dependent. We run on Data General which supports RAID tape arrays we use a five tape drive RAID 5 array which can hold up to 160GB with compression. Since not all data compresses to 50% we set TAPESIZE to values between 100000000 and 120000000 depending on how much of the data on the particular server is binary -vs- text. This works fine. Art S. Kagel