Пересылка: Backup 2 instances to 1 DAT tape?

["Shulzhenko Vasyl" <vasilis@softline.kiev.ua>]

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От: Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk>
Группы: comp.databases.informix
Дата: 28 января 1999 г. 11:11
Тема: Re: Backup 2 instances to 1 DAT tape?


>This topic comes up regularly, and you can find a full discussion of it from
>about three weeks ago from a c.d.i. archive.
>
>A summary of the discussion:
>
>1.  You can back up multiple instances to a single tape, but the concensus
>is that you can't restore directly from a no-rewind device because of the
>way in which the restore utilities manipulate the tape.  In order to restore
>from anything other than the first archive you would first have to dd the
>archive to another medium (disk or another tape).
>
>2.    One Solaris user had claimed that he had been able to get a restore
>from the second archive on a tape to work, but this is the only time I've
>seen this claimed, and didn't test his method myself so have no idea whether
>it's valid.
>
>Neil Truby
>aracnet Limited
>Weybridge,UK
>
>leekb@bigfoot.com wrote in message <78of9j$3oi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>>Is it possible to backup 2 instances of IDS on one machine to a single DAT
>>tape?
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>leekb@bigfoot.com
>>
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