Re: LEVEL 0 BACKUP

Lal Beharry Johnson Ramjattan wrote: > > I am currently running Online 5.05 on a Dec Alpha 2100 (Unix). > > My database now spans more than one tape. My tape drive accepts only one > tape. You have to manually change the tapes. > > I initiate the backup at 1:00 AM in the morning. After the first tape is > complete, tbtape issues a "please mount another tape and hit enter" message > and waits for operator to mount another tape. > > I want to backup the database (Level 0) to a tape unit attached to another > machine nearby over our LAN. Reason is : the other machine has an > autoloader tape unit attached (you insert many blank tapes - when one is > complete another one loads automatically). > > The archive tape parameter is set to: TAPEDEV machine2:/dev/rmt0h > > Question: Will this work ? Will tbtape still issue a hard wait after the > second tape drops in place ? Yes it will. tbtape will only ask for a second tape when it has written the tape size. You need to tell tbtape the size of ALL tapes in the autoloader. Ie. if the autoloader holds 10 tapes of 2Gb each, then set your tape size to 20Gb. Hope that helps, -- Mark. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Mark D. Stock - The West Solutions Group http://www.west.co.za | | The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org | |mailto:marks@west.co.za +------------------------------------------------+ |Tel: +27 11 803 2151 |If it doesn't work... force it! | |Fax: +27 11 803 2189 |If it breaks... it needed replacing anyway! | |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Well, that's how I code anyway! | +------------------------+------------------------------------------------+