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From: tim@ohday.sybase.com (Tim Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Requests for improvements to SYBASE
Keywords: backup restore dump load 8mm tape
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Date: 24 Jan 91 01:13:25 GMT
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In article <12261@sybase.sybase.com> tim@ohday.sybase.com (Tim Wood) writes:
>
>In article <116@jetson.UUCP>, danq@jetson.UUCP (Daniel Quinlan) writes:
>>  Backup  tapes  are  not
>>  labeled,  so there is no way to discover what is on a backup
>>  tape without reloading it.
>
>The user can physically label the dump media with the server name,
>database name, date/time, etc. ...
>We may store the database name and whether the archive is a database
>or transaction log in non-reserved string fields of the ANSI header labels.
>The date fields in those labels allow time sequencing.

Late update: it's looking like we will write a label block with interesting
information at the front of each dump file.











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