Re: export/backup direct to tape in win2k?

"John W." wrote:

> is it possible to to directly backup a database on tape in win2k?
> lack of disk space necessitates this. tia

John,

I would strongly recommend that you use a media manager (e.g. Veritas NT Backup Exec)
for this purpose.

Alternatively, you could create a hot backup script that operated on a tablespace at a time, datafile at a time, copied one file to disk, and wrote that off to tape via the ntbackup command.

IMHO - ntbackup in W2K is a real PITA.
Pick up a media manager.

if not, check out the NT scripting Black book for examples, or just use

C:\> ntbackup /?

for info on the command line parameters. Its not pretty.

hth,

Paul Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 16:32:04 CDT