ontape using a jukebox

We have a dlt tape jukebox running on an HP system. To advance our jukebox to the next tape, we run the following command: mt -t <tape device> offl This is set up in a cron job for us. We then have a later cron job that performs the archive. Ask your system administrator or jukebox vendor what command to use in your situation. HTH Mike Ballentine --------------------------( Forwarded letter 1 follows )--------------------- Date: Wednesday, 16 April 1997 2:53pm Priority: Normal To: informix-list <informix-list@rmy.emory.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: gbellani@openware.com.ar Date:Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:25:45 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; X-MAPIextension=".TXT" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: informix-list-owner@rmy.emory.edu Reply-To: Gabriela Bellani <gbellani@openware.com.ar> X-Informix-List-Id: <list.14028> Hi! I=92m new in the informix-list but I=92ve already taken advantage of som= e good ideas brougth to the net... I=92m wondering if anyone can help me... Our installation has Online 7.13UC1 running in a Sun Sparc 2000 with Solaris 2.5. Database size: 25GB ( all raw device in Veritas Vol Manager) Running ontape -s -L 0 takes 9-10 hours and we are planning to do it only on weekends. By now we have no personnel working on weekends so "someone" decided that the solution was to buy a "brand new jukebox" to run unattended back ups. The jukebox is completly unaware of the existance of Informix.... Has anyone tried to run ontape -s / ontape -c on such a device....? How do we tell the jukebox to change tapes...? The jukebox is a NSR - EXB-210 with media type 8mm 5GB Any help would be VERY appreciated! PS. Sorry if any word was misspelled but english is not my native language... --- Gabriela Bellani gbellani@bisel.com.ar