Re: Archive to disk to iSCSI device

On Dec 21, 10:33 am, dcrunch...@aim.com wrote: > In article <86b1697f-b6be-4392-a5d8-50e556f54...@l32g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>, > Art S. Kagel says... > > >> And if so, as far as I know, doing this still has to be in 2gb files > >> due to limitations on disk. If that is the case, I would have 160 2gb > >> files since our database is approx 320gb. Restore would be a > >> nightmare! Anybody currently doing this? > > >AFAIK 9.40 does not have the 2GB file size limitation. You should be > >able to set TAPESIZE to 400000000 and be good to go. > > I don't think pre 9.40 limitation of 2GB has anything to do with > TAPESIZE. On 7.31 I have set TAPESIZE to 200GB and then dbexported > to the disk, but the disk was on a remote machine. I used > TAPESIZE remotemachine:/file_path. > > Even if the disk is local, TAPESIZE can be set to any value, > but dbexport will fail because of 2GB limitation. That's different. If the TAPEDEV is defined as remote then IDS cannot check the file type using the stat() system call so it assumes that the file is a tape device on the other end and permits larger sizes. Art S. Kagel Oninit, LLC.