DB Backup to tape on Windows NT Server

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Kush - 28 Jun 2006 19:57 GMT

Hi.

I want to do a db backup to tape. I looked thru the command reference
and it just says "to tape". I don't know how to reference the tape
drive on windows as it is not assigned a drive letter. Can someone
please give me the command? Should I be seeing the tape drive as a
drive letter?

Thanks,

Kush

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Ian - 28 Jun 2006 20:23 GMT

> Hi.
>
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> please give me the command? Should I be seeing the tape drive as a
> drive letter?

You refer to it using the Windows physical device name, i.e. \\.\TAPE0
or \\.\TAPE1. Make sure you use the INITIALIZE TAPE command, too.

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Kush - 28 Jun 2006 20:34 GMT

Ian.

Thanks for your quick reply.

What exactly does the "initialize" command do? Does it wipe out the
existing data on the tape?

Thanks,

Kush

> > Hi.
> >
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> You refer to it using the Windows physical device name, i.e. \\.\TAPE0
> or \\.\TAPE1. Make sure you use the INITIALIZE TAPE command, too.

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Ian - 29 Jun 2006 21:50 GMT

> Ian.
>
> Thanks for your quick reply.
>
> What exactly does the "initialize" command do? Does it wipe out the
> existing data on the tape?

Actually I don't know exactly what it does. It probably just writes
some header information to the tape so that DB2 knows that it is a
"DB2" tape.

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