Re: ORACLE in Sun 4.1.3 and a big tape

In article 33710_at_suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL, lev_at_ipxed5.nswses.navy.mil (Lloyd E Vancil) writes:
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>Does anyone out there know the magic to
>write archive log files directly to a tape?
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>I have an on board hd Xybyte and I cna cron the dump
>but I would rather be able to just have the tape mounted and
>let logwrtr do it.....
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If you want to archive directly to tape you have to dedicate a tape drive to the ARCH process otherwise you have to do it manually. However as the database is only as fast as the slowest write to the log files is it wise to do this?

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