ontape an CPIO

Hi We have SCO Unix 5.0.6 And Informix 7 We would like to do a level 0 backup to the hard disk instead of tapes. But we have this 2GB file size limit on SCO 5.0.6 Maybe it is possible to do a ontape and the pipe it to CPIO (CPIO would allow us to split the output file) e.g. ontape -L0 testdb | cpio -ov -O file1, file2 However, this is not working, because I suspect that the ontape is writing to the tape (file) as specified in the onconfig. I have tried to fool the system by putting cpio command in the onconfig. Any tips, advice, tricks that can assist us to do this?? Regards David Reed

David Reed wrote: > Hi > > We have SCO Unix 5.0.6 > > And Informix 7 > > > > We would like to do a level 0 backup to the hard disk instead of tapes. > > But we have this 2GB file size limit on SCO 5.0.6 > > > > Maybe it is possible to do a ontape and the pipe it to CPIO (CPIO would > allow us to split the output file) > > e.g. ontape 'L0 testdb | cpio 'ov 'O file1, file2 > > > > However, this is not working, because I suspect that the ontape is > writing to the tape (file) as specified in the onconfig. > > I have tried to fool the system by putting cpio command in the onconfig. > > > > Any tips, advice, tricks that can assist us to do this?? > > > > Regards > > David Reed > > > > > 1. SCO? Get off SCO. 2. IDS 7? Hmm, specifically IDS 7.??.??? 3. Just use a load of 2 Gig Files (when request comes in to mount new tape, rename the existing TAPDEV file and touch a new one. 4. Create a PIPE and use it for TAPEDEV 5. See the IIUG Software repository. > I have tried to fool the system by putting cpio command in the onconfig. Interesting approach, but invalid