Re: Ontape Archive Solution Needed....

J. Andrew Toole wrote: > > I am currently using ontape to archive my 7.12 database. I have a script which > runs the archive via cron each night. The database is about to exceed the 4gb > limit of my tape drive and will require a second tape to be mounted. The > problem > is that the job is automatic at 3am so mounting a second tape in the drive is > not an option(I'm not coming in at 3am!!!). Also, I refuse to use ONARCHIVE (it > sux). Any suggestions??? Why do you run it at this ungodly hour? Does it impact on performance so much? If you have lots of disk you could archive to a disk file then copy to tape at your leisure. But I doubt you have 5Gb of disk just lying around! Otherwise, buy a bigger tape drive! They are cheap compared to work at 3am! Cheers, -- Mark. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mark D. Stock - The West Solutions Group http://www.west.co.za | | | |Email: marks@west.co.za +------------------------------------------------+ |Tel: +27 11 803 2151 |If it doesn't work... force it! | |Fax: +27 11 803 2189 |If it breaks... it needed replacing anyway! | |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Well, that's how I code anyway! | +------------------------+------------------------------------------------+