Re: Reading tbtape

Posted in 1993

Naomi Walker — Wed, 10 Feb 93 8:27:41 MST — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

> > Is there a way to read the tape after a tbtape has > been done to assure what was written? > Depends which tbtape you mean... Since we have been bitten by media failures, we verify all our archive and log tapes on production systems. To read the log tapes, we use tblog. To read the archive tapes, we dd them to /dev/null. -- Naomi Walker (aka N7FSA) naomi@anasazi.com If you always agree with your boss, one of you is not necessary.