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Backup and Restore Parameters

Use ON–Bar or ontape to create storage-space and logical-log backups of database server data. To verify storage-space backups, use ON–Bar. For more information on ON–Bar and ontape, see the IBM Informix Backup and Restore Guide.

If you use the ontape utility, use the following parameters to describe your tape devices. To use a tape to its full physical capacity, set TAPESIZE and LTAPESIZE to 0 to read/write to the end of the medium.

Configuration Parameter Description
TAPEDEV Specifies tape devices.
TAPEBLK Specifies the block size of the tape device.
TAPESIZE Specifies the maximum amount of data that should be written to each tape.
LTAPEDEV Specifies tape devices.
LTAPEBLK Specifies the block size of the tape device.
LTAPESIZE Specifies the maximum amount of data that should be written to each tape.
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