Re: 10 Giga backup

mghong_at_pl.jaring.my wrote:

] Hello may I know how can I do a full-database backup
]which is using 8mm tape ? and DC6525 tape drive ?
]Is it possible to run it a script which will detect wether a tape is
]full and jump into another drive to continuos backup ?

We use Exabyte 8mm tape in a Sun drive in a Sun/Solaris 2.4 machine. There is nothing on the drive or in the book to say what model number it is, just a serial number. The kernel identifies it as a <Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm Helical Scan>

With this drive you can get 160 metre tapes that hold 7Gig. I find that with compression a 10 Gig database will fit, along with 3 Gig of logs. Under Solaris, the device to use to get compressions is: /dev/rmt/0cbn
The 0 depends on where the drive is, the c indicates use compression.

Regards,
George. Received on Tue Jan 28 1997 - 00:00:00 CST