Re: Diverting the target of an ontape?

Art S. Kagel wrote: > >Jacob Salomon wrote: >> >>Hi Family. >> >>For over 7 years I have been happily (??) running ontape to back up >>OnLine systems. I have always understood that the target of the archive >>is the device/file that displays in the TAPEDEV parameter. >> >>A colleague claimed yesterday that about a month ago he had run an >>ontape command and specified a tape device. Now he cannot recall the >>command syntax he used. >Your friend is mistaken Jake. There is no way to override the TAPEDEV >from the command line. We use a backup script that permits the >operator to specify a tape device. The script then uses awk to modify >the TAPEDEV and TAPESIZE parameters in the ONCONFIG file before running >ontape. Perhaps the administrator at your friends site has replaced >ontape with such a script? BTW: This scheme works fine for ontape -s >but, of course you have to use onmonitor to change LTAPEDEV on the fly. Thanks for the sanity check, Art. When really pressed, he confessed to having used onarchive. Obviously, there is no way ontape it going to read that. BTW, if I wanted to divert the ontape target on the fly (what's it doing there anyway? ;-) I would set the TAPEDEV to be a file name that is really symbolic link to anywhere I want it to be. Then I would have the script reset the link to reference a tape device or a flat file, as I please. Somehow, I suspect you are no stranger to this technique. ;-) Thanks. -- -- Jake (Pondering the color of an asphyxiated smurf) +------------------------------------------------------------+ | The expedient performance of a task with excessive concern | | regarding its duration-to-completion engenders a virtual | | certainty of diminished benefit therefrom. | | -- Benjamin Franklin (but he said it in 3 words) | +------------------------------------------------------------+