RE: Backup monkey?

ISM allows up to 4 devices (or output streams -- it will multiplex to a single drive, if you let it). No cross-machine restores, no remote devices, but if you gotta have a storage manager, it beats having nothing. Doug -----Original Message----- From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:57 AM To: dagnew@charlottepipe.com; informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Backup monkey? From: "Doug Agnew" <dagnew@charlottepipe.com> > >He does have multiple drives, but want to use them 'consecutively', so he >must be using ontape. We use a script that runs ontape, taking input from >a >file and redirecting the console output (mount requests) to a second file.. >A script monitors the second file and performs an unlink and link to the >next tape drive and then writes the appropriate response to the file that >ontape is reading. > >I agree, OTC, that OnBar with ISM would be a reasonable solution. Does ISM support multiple tape drives? I thought it was quite primitive. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com