Re: ONTAPE: space used status?

Posted in 1997

J Lusty — Mon, 3 Nov 1997 13:34:17 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Informix will write to the amount stored in LTAPESIZE, then prompt for another tape. If you set LTAPESIZE too high and Informix encounters the end of the tape before it expects to, it bombs. This is the behavior for a Level 0 archive, so it is likely the same for continual logical log backups. Cosmo Lee wrote: >When running `ontape -c` to back up the logical logs continuously, where >does Online keep track of how much data has been written to tape?