Re: Copy more than one instance on a single tape in Informix

Hi, that's how ontape works. You can of course use no-rewind tape devices, but officially this is not supported. That means you then are yourself responsible for positioning the tape correctly before starting a backup or restore. If you choose to use no-rewind devices, make sure everybody who is a DBA for this environment knows about it AND remembers it. It will save you a lot of hassle and also opening cases with Tech Support "because the restore doesn't work" ... Alternatively you could use ON-Bar and ISM (or some other appropriate storage manager), but that means you need to do a bit of setup and configuration to make it work. (And with ISM there's the hassle of "imported restore" in case you want to restore on a different machine - but that has been discussed recently and in detail in one of these lists/news groups ...) Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 05.10.2005 14:29:17: > Hi. > > I would like to knwo whether is it possible or not to backup more than > one instance in Informix IDS 7.31 on a single tape for later restore > all of them. I tried it but after each backup the tape is automatically > rewinded and so the other backup superposes the first one. The last one > is restored properly. > > Thank you. > > Alan sending to informix-list