Re: tbtape wants a second tape

dan, > But some nights it requests a second tape (and subsequently fails). There > doesn't seem to be much evidence of massive system activity (would that even > affect how much tape was needed?). If I leave the same tape in the drive > and start an archive manually during the the day, it finishes just fine on > one tape. Any theories? this isn't much help, but might spark some things off. i have little experience with onarchive, but the one thing that i did notice was that it took a long time, and there was a lot of tape activity, to back up my logical logs. ontape backs up a log in seconds when it is full, but onarchive was taking minutes, with all kinds of activity. i think that onarchive puts a lot more info out there on tape, but that is just a guess. it might do things differently and more involved when it finds out that a page has changed as well. coming from the VMS world, who the hell knows... any comments, thoughts, informix input? mickm