Re: Ontape

In article <5s9kpq$q4c@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, JayaG@unitedgas.co.uk says... > >Hi, > >A question on onarchive. > >After reading the documentation on onarchive we found that we should go >for onarchive. > >At the moment we are using ontape to backup our system. We have just now >migrated our system from 5.06 to 7.23 in Sequent/Dynix PTX platform. > >The query is whether anybody has faced problems with onarchive in this >platform or any suggestions on using onarchive over ontape . > >Thanks for your help > >Jay > I'd echo Doug Bowman's comments. onarchive is OK but prone to occasional and (to me anyway!) inexplicable inconsistencies between catalog and disk (we do our archives to disk). Thus simplicity of configuration can pay dividends. I don't have any direct experience of onbar; what's the general opinion? Neil Truby