onbar backups w/tape rotations

Greetings, I'm in the process of changing our backups from ontape to onbar. I'm having problems writing to the tapes after they have been changed. The backups are written to tapes and are on a 2 week rotation (offsite storage). Does anyone else write their backups off to tapes that are changed everyday? If so, do you label and mount the tapes each day in a script? Do you have to do this everytime a new tape is placed into rotations? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks

I am using ISM, no third party storage manager. I gather you are also using pure ISM from Informix. I experience that tapes not being able to expire. Even though I set it to expire in one day. After one week, the tapes still could not expire, I have to relabel it and mount it again. I have given up testing it after several months of fruitless thinking, reading and testing. regards "Darren_Jaco...." <Darren_Jacobs@carmax.com> on 03/09/2003 02:14:55 To: ids@iiug.org cc: (bcc: Dominic Seah Chin Teck/MEH/SG/Parkway) Subject: onbar backups w/tape rotations [1789] Greetings, I'm in the process of changing our backups from ontape to onbar. I'm having problems writing to the tapes after they have been changed. The backups are written to tapes and are on a 2 week rotation (offsite storage). Does anyone else write their backups off to tapes that are changed everyday? If so, do you label and mount the tapes each day in a script? Do you have to do this everytime a new tape is placed into rotations? Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks The information contained and transmitted by this e-mail is intended for use only by the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or it appears that this mail has been forwarded to you without proper authority, you are hereby notified that any use, distribution, printing, copying or dissemination of this e-mail in any manner or taking action in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately at paullee@gleneagles.com.sg and permanently delete the original and any copy of this e-amil and any printout thereof.