Re: Informix ontape level 0 backup finishes all day in 90 percentdone.

"David Williams" <djw@smooth1.fsnet.co.uk> writes: > Get 9.40.UC3. You can set TAPESIZE=0 which means write until the tape is > full! D'oh! I just installed 9.40.UC3 a few weeks ago and still haven't had a chance to give the release notes more than a cursory glance. Now, if only there was a way to easily get the TAPEBLK parameter that would keep the tape streaming... -- Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412 Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> Phone: (760) 499-9142 President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152 My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B

Ronald Cole wrote: > "David Williams" <djw@smooth1.fsnet.co.uk> writes: > >>Get 9.40.UC3. You can set TAPESIZE=0 which means write until the tape is >>full! > > > D'oh! I just installed 9.40.UC3 a few weeks ago and still haven't had > a chance to give the release notes more than a cursory glance. Now, > if only there was a way to easily get the TAPEBLK parameter that would > keep the tape streaming... First step - increase the value to 256 (KB). The 16 KB default was not particularly sensible in 1988; it certainly isn't any better now. If that doesn't make the tape stream, you've got one of two problems: slow disks or too much activity on the system. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/