Using Fewer Devices to Load Than to Dump

You can load a database or log even if one of your dump devices becomes unavailable between the dump and load. Specify fewer stripe clauses in the load command than you did in the dump command.

Note: When you dump and load over the network, you must use the same number of drives for both operations.

The following examples use three devices to dump a database but only two to load it:

dump database pubs2 to "/dev/nrmt0"
    stripe on "/dev/nrmt1"
    stripe on "/dev/nrmt2"
load database pubs2 from "/dev/nrmt0"
    stripe on "/dev/nrmt1"

After the first two tapes are loaded, a message notifies the operator to load the third.

You can also dump a database to multiple operating system files. This example is for Windows:

dump database pubs2 to "d:\backups\backup1.dat"
    stripe on "d:\backups\backup2.dat"
    stripe on "d:\backups\backup3.dat"
load database pubs2 from "/dev/nrmt0"
stripe on "d:\backups\backup2.dat"
    stripe on "d:\backups\backup3.dat"