RE: Multiple DAT Drive Backup

In article <6s523a$gdv$1@news.xmission.com>, David.Ashby@workcover.nsw.gov.au (Ashby, David) wrote: > > Everybody, > > Is there a reason why Informix doesn't detect for end of tape and then > ask for the tape to be changed? The current implementation has always > seemed very clumsy to me. > > I can understand that it would be a more difficult process to write eg: > you only write half a page to a tape and then it runs out, but you could > just write this page to the new tape. > > > Regards, > David Ashby [cutting] Informix assumes that you know how long the tape is and writes until that size is reached or the tape errors. If it didn't do that. everytime it wrote data it would need to check what was happenining. This might be a little slower. Personally I like the way Unix and Informix doesn't treat you like an idiot and generally assumes you know what you are doing Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 #