Re: Tb(On)Tape to Disk for Backups?
melvin.mariney2@bridge.bst.bls.com (Melvin Mariney) wrote:
>Fellow Informixer's,
>Is it possible to use tbtape or ontape to do a backup to a disk file
>rather than a tape file. In reading the documentation and actually
>changing the TAPEDEV parameter to a disk file and trying to do
>a level 0 backup, it failed with 'unable to write to archive tape'
>message. Just would like to know if anyone else has tried this and got
>different results.
>
>Thanks
Yep you can.
You need to create an empty file first or ontape can't find it to
write to.
Peter Tashkoff
Auckland, New Zealand
e-mail ptash@iconz.co.nz