Re: ontape - how to verify whats on the tape

Posted in 1997

Richard Stanford — Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:47:55 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, John Hitchinson wrote: > Given the recent messages concerning ONTAPE recovery errors. Does anyone > know how to verify what dbspaces have actually been backed up to the > tape, ignoring output from the archive reserved page. In effect does > anyone know how to interpret the contents of the tape archive? We're supposed to be getting a tool from Informix that will validate archives. It's possible that this will only confirm whether or not it was successful, but I'd hope that it provides more information. If it does what you're asking (we're still waiting for it) I'll let you know. -Richard