NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!

     Think of it this way:  A database backup (any kind) is a point in time
     occurrence.  You have info, back it up, AND TAKE IT AWAY for safe
     keeping.  Stacking db backups is like having a pen-pal who, despite
     the monthly letter you send, doesn't seem to send any back, until the
     end-of-tape  err I mean end-of-year when you get 1 letter with ALL the
     responses to your monthly ones.  :) or :( ?  What if the letter gets
     lost, stepped on, burned, shredded, is unreadable, or just
     mis-delivered?  YOU GOT NOTHING THEN!


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Subject: Re: backup db
Author:  Bo Ossinger <ossinger AT WSU DOT EDU> at ~Internet
Date:    11/19/97 7:37 AM


At 07:29 AM 11/19/97 -0600, Scott Temonia wrote:
>You can't stack database backups on a tape.  Once you use a tape for a
>database backup then that tape can't be used for another DB backup.

We are just setting up a new server, and had the same question.  Does this
apply to incrementals too -- I can't put one full and a series of
incrementals on the same tape?


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