Re: Parallel Database Backup

In article <jlumbleyCJwoEA.L1H@netcom.com> jlumbley@netcom.com (Joe Lumbley) writes: > >You may have something here. I've been searching for an answer to a >tbtape problem on my Pyramid 12/9 ES. Our backup began failing due to >the Unix files size limit (punched up to 4.0 gig by Pyramid). How big is >your total backup set? Is it over 4 gig? > >We've figured that the only way to do a level 0 archive is to use multiple >tapes (we tell tbmonitor that our 25 gig tape is 3.9 gig). Using the >multiple tapes forces tbtape to use multiple writes, each under the 4 gig >limit. > >Have you solved this problem? > >Thankx, >Joe Pardon me for jumping in... We use Pyramid MIS-12ES's and write 12GB to a Pyramid 3465 drive (Exabyte 8500 compressed). ULIMIT -a run from the Informix userid gives 2000000. We have never had that problem. P. S. Hi, Naomi.. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Burks jburks@promus.com The Promus Companies Memphis, Tennessee, USA