Re: Onunload/onload to raw disk?

Neil Truby wrote: > > I've used it. It's fine. In fact, if you're going to do an onunload to disk > (and why not? - this obsession with tape beats me) then it's a better way > than cooked disk to do it. > > For large databases you're going to be constrained by the physical size of > your disks (or logical units if you're using some sort of storage array). To > avoid messing around with "end-of-tape" conditions you should use a logical > volume manager to create a volume of sufficient size to accept your unload. You could always point onunload to a softlink to the real raw device then move the link to another disk when onunload asks for a new tape to be mounted. Art S. Kagel