Ontape and jukeboxes

Posted in 1997

Gabriela Bellani — 16 Apr 1997 15:03:31 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

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