tape

[rakkesh_1970]

hi,
how the tape be formatted on hpux 11.23

thanks
shabir

[Duncan Edmonstone]

fomatted for what? what do you want to do with the tape?

Most OS tools that use tape such as tar/cpio/vxdump/pax/fbackup don't require tapes to be formatted in any way.

MOst enterprise backup products such as NetBackup, Data Protector or TSM usually want to 'initialise' or 'label' a tape before using it, but even that isn't really 'formatting'.

What are you trying to acheive?

HTH

Duncan

[rakkesh_1970]

hi
thanks for reply

we want congigure the tape for oracle rman back up.
before this we want erase all existing backups.

thanks
rakesh