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 Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care