Re: ONBAR tape setup

Informix novice, This is really a limitation of the storage manager, and not onbar. You didn't mention what storage manager you used, but any storage manager worth its salt can backup multiple jobs at the same time to the same tape. During a full instance backup ("onbar -b -L 0") onbar will spawn several jobs depending on: 1. What BAR_MAX_BACKUP is set to. BAR_MAX_BACKUP is an onconfig parameter that limits the number of simultaneous onbar jobs that are started (0 = unlimited) 2. How many dbspaces you have 3. Whether you are running a whole backup or not (using the "-w" flag in the onbar command) 4. If the ALARMPROGRAM starts a logical log backup So potentially (though unlikely) you could have one backup job per dbspace and logical log running simultaneously. Hope this helps. Good luck. Brice Avila