ontape forma

Posted in 2004

H.J. Sanders — Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:14:44 +0200 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Hello list. Does anybody know the format of an "ontape" backup? Can it be copied to another media and still be used for a restore? To be precise: we have an ontape backup on DDS3 format but we need DDS2 . Thanks Henk sending to informix-list

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Neil Truby — Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:47:48 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Yup, that should work fine. You could dd the archive to disk and restore from there too provided the backup is less than 2GBytes in size (I'm assuming here that if you have DDS2 tapes you're also on some antediluvian version of IDS). -- Neil Truby t:01932 724027 Director m:07798 811708 Ardenta Limited e:neil.truby@ardenta.com "H.J. Sanders" <hjs@rmax.nl> wrote in message news:ch45bd$ash$1@news.xmission.com... > > > Hello list. > > Does anybody know the format of an "ontape" backup? > > Can it be copied to another media and still be used for a restore? > > To be precise: we have an ontape backup on DDS3 format but we need DDS2 . > > Thanks > > Henk > > > sending to informix-list

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