RE: Diverting the target of an ontape?
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Or... possibly that colleague simply modified the TAPEDEV value in the
onconfig file on the fly (i.e., without bouncing the engine), and then ran
ontape. That will work for sending the archive to another device, too.
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Paul A. Mosser, Open Systems DBA
Wells Fargo Bank
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.
mosserp@wellsfargo.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Williams [SMTP:djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 4:32 PM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: Diverting the target of an ontape?
>
> In article <35352390.B0C33BA5@garpac.com>, Jacob Salomon
> <jake@garpac.com> writes
> >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.
> >
> NO, possibly he used onarchive? or onbar?
>
> Or maybe TAPEDEV points to a link and he changed the link?
>
> >Certainly such an option might be desireable - an override of the
> >TAPEDEV parameter. However, it is nowhere documented (that I can find).
> >The OnLine log does indicate an archive taken at the time he claims this
> >feat.
> >
> >So, it his memory totally mistaken about the ontape command? He is not
> >an admin person so he may have been hacking around. But something DID
> >happen, while the TAPEDEV was /dev/null.
> >
> >19:45:16 Level 0 Archive started on rootdbs, logspace, plogspace,> >garpacspace,edispace, stdspace
> >19:46:30 Archive on rootdbs, logspace, plogspace, garpacspace,> >edispace, stdspace ABORTED.
> >19:46:30 Aborted by client.
> >19:46:31 Process exited with return code 127: /bin/sh /bin/sh -c> >/usr/informix/log_full.sh 3 6 "Internal Subsystem failure: 'Archive'"
> >"Archive on rootdbs, logspace, p (CUTS OFF HERE)
> >
> >So what's up?
> >
> >Thanks.
>
> --
> David Williams
>
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