On Mon, 10 Feb 1997 22:39:18 -0600, Dwight E. Cook wrote:
>     Touched on not very long ago...
>     #1) I do FULL backups daily... I use an administrative event to issue:
>        BACKUP DB TYPE=FULL SCRATCH=YES DEV=3590DEVC

Thanks for the info. I guess this is what I was looking for.
I don't particularly like what they did with this new Backup DB. They
should have allowed to overwrite a tape with a parameter instead of
going through the sillines of deleting the volhistory.

>     PS and even though my full DB Bkup takes over an hour on my system
>     with the 9+GB DB I still do a full ;-)

Any reason you always to a full? Is it possible to do an incremental
on the same tape as a full?