Is fbackup will ask for next tape once the tape user is already full?

[Ricky_4]

Hi All,

We would like to backup our datafile using fbackup. After calculating the total size of the datafile, it will consume 3 tapes. Is fbackup will prompt for a next tape once the 1st loaded tape is already full? How about if we are going to restore those 3 tapes used in backup, will frecover ask what tape needs to insert?

Regards,

Adriatico

[steven Burgess_2]

Hello

Yes to both questions

Regards

Steve

[Steven E. Protter]

Sure it will ask.

You can't run such a job from cron because there will be no terminal to prompt the machine operator for the next tape.

Practically speaking, I've had issues over the years possibly because backup sets were not kept together properly.

Its important to properly label and keep the tape sets together.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

If the user runs from the command line and in foreground, the fbackup will pause when a tape is full and ask for another tape. This pause is limited in time so if you start it and forget you have it running, the pause for a new tape will timeout and tyhe fbackup session will fail.

frecover will do the same.