Re: Q/ ISM and Tape devices in NT

Jeff, How long did you wait before you decided it was "hanging"? I have seen at one of my customers using Informx 7.2x on Windows NT that the Informix Storage Manager (effectively onbar) first writes a lot of data (in my case about 200 MB) to temporary disk space and then copies it to tape. Does this help you? Regards Helmut jeffso@lucent.com wrote: > I've just starting to play with the Informix Storage Manager from > Informix 7.3 under window NT. The manual said I shall make the > devices name as \\\\.\\Tape0, I can add this as a devices name, but > when I try to backup the data to it, the ISM seens to just hang > there. I have 2 questions and wondering if anybody know the answer. > > 1) What devices name shall I use? If \\\\.\\Tape0 is the one, is there > any procedure I have to follow to create such devices like I did > for Unix? > > 2) Can I use this ISM manager to backup the data on my Unix server > running 7.2x? > > Thanks. > > -- > Jeff So > Office : 973-3868839 > Email : jeffso@lucent.com -- Helmut Leininger Bull AG / Vienna Unix Support Email: Helmut.Leininger@bull.net This opinion is mine and not necessarily that of my employer. No guarantees whatsoever.