Re: Accessing remote tape drive

I use named pipes and rsh. With this same approach you can send archives (, logs, exported databases - with dbexport) around the network or archive them in compressed files (and I'm sure others use the same mechanism in bright ways I jus can't imagine :-) Mind you, I'm on OnLine 5.x though BTW, for the wish list, Tim: wouldn't it be nice if tbtape (and ontape for that matter) had -t/-b/-s flags like dbexport/import & tbunload/load, so that I don't have to stop the engine, edit tbconfig to specify a new device, restart the engine, archive, restop the engine, restore the original tbconfig and restart the engine for the third time, whenever I want to archive to some other device? (and this could apply to ontape too...) HTH, Marco _______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco <marcog@ctonline.it> rem radioterapia +39 95 447828 fax 446558 Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/ 4glworks http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog Cosmo Lee wrote: > > Is there a trick to accessing a remote tape drive with Ontape? > > As far as I know, you can't access a remote tape drive using NFS. I > don't know how Ontape intends to do this. The only directives in the > OnArchive manual are to set TAPEDEV to host:device/path in the > onconfig > file. But there are no clues as to how Ontape is supposed to actually > access the tape drive. My attempts so far have failed, and an > Informix > engineer had no hints either. > > I tried mounting the device via NFS, but couldn't open the device > which > was mounted locally. > > Any help *much* appreciated. > -- > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * > ADDRESS ALTERED TO FOIL SPAMMERS: Remove "*NO-SPAM*" to reply. > > Cosmo Lee Multi-User Computer Systems Brooklyn, NY > > email: cosmo@echonyc.com "JUST SAY 'NO' TO SPAM" > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *