Re: data bigger than tape

price wrote: > > hi : > if I use ontape to backup data ,but the data chunk is bigger than the my > tape . > does it prompt message to ask me to load another new tape to backup??? Yes and no. If you specify the wrong (too large) size in your tape parameters, then the archive will run off the end of the tape and fail! However, if you specify the correct size or smaller, then OnTape will prompt for each tape as required. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |This email will self-destruct in |/// / ////| | |10 sec. If you received this email |// / /////| | |in error, sorry about the mess. |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+