Re: autochangers and ontape

In article <31755A59.1920@ally.ios.com>, Denise Krefting <krefting@ally.ios.com> wrote: >We are purchasing a HP9000 T520 which will have around 80GB of disk >space. 60GB will be for the Online database. We are investigating >the use of autochanger for the tape backups, but I understand that >Informix does not support them. Also, Informix tells me that the max >tape size is 2GB unless it is a streaming device. This would be a lot >of tapes and manual intervention for backups if we can't use an >autochanger. > >Has anyone used an autochanger? >What was your success? >How was it configured? >etc..... > >thanks.......... I used an autochanger from Spectralogic(Boulder, Colorado) in one of the projects I was involved in. Works great. They have two ways of doing the archive, one using tbtape and another using their own utility. They basically look at the autochanger as one huge tape device and temporarily override your TAPESIZE setting in tbconfig while they do the archive. I don't have their number with me currently but I'm sure 411 in Boulder can give it to you. regards, ramesh.