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- From: larryj@sybase.com (Larry Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- Subject: Re: DUMP DATABASE ... - to Exabyte tapedrive ???
- Keywords: dump.database
- Message-ID: <27606@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: 5 Jan 93 18:23:22 GMT
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- Use care about dumping multiple databases to a single tape and
- ABSOLUTELY TEST that if you do so you can get the individual databases
- back again.
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- There is no tape positioning done by Sybase, to the best of my
- knowledge. The safest way is to TEST first --or-- dump the databases to
- disk files and then use standard UNIX facilities to place them on the
- tape. Then, you can use those same standard utilities to retrieve the
- one(s) you need to disk and load them from those files.
-