Setting up a remote tape device for ONTAPE usage

I know this subject has been documented before. I have been successful in setting up and writing to a remote tape device. I am able to copy files using tar and/or cpio command, but when I attempt to use the ONTAPE commands: ontape -s ontape -c these backups fail. It can not see the tape device. I have the tape device variables set in ONCONFIG file: Logical Log Tape Device <server name>:/dev/rmt/0m Archive Tape Device " " Is there a ONTAPE command line I can use for this????? Thanks, Tim tojones@gate.net

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- news.gate.net <tojones@gate.net> wrote in message news:7rltle$1pr6$1@news.gate.net... > I know this subject has been documented before. > > I have been successful in setting up and writing to a remote tape device. > I am able to copy files using tar and/or cpio command, but when I attempt > to use the ONTAPE commands: ontape -s ontape -c these backups > fail. > > It can not see the tape device. > > I have the tape device variables set in ONCONFIG file: > > Logical Log Tape Device <server name>:/dev/rmt/0m > Archive Tape Device " " > > Is there a ONTAPE command line I can use for this????? > > Thanks, > > Tim > tojones@gate.net > Tim. We had the same setup and it worked fine (IDS 7.23). I think your problem is the rshd permissions. make sure the user that is running the ontape command (informix?) have an .rhosts in his home directory on both (!) computers that you are running. Assuming the tape is on tapeserver.yourdomain.com and informix is running on dbserver.yourdomain.com you need to have user "informix" on both machines and the .rhosts (or /etc/hosts.equiv) for these users should be: tapeserver: ~informix/.rhosts: dbserver dbserver.yourdomain.com dbserver: ~informix/.rhosts: tapeserver tapeserver.yourdoamin.com hope this helps. Nir - -- Nir Levy Email: nlevy@shaked.co.il System Administrator Phone: +972-3-5797551/5789536 Shaked Computer Systems Ltd. Fax: +972-3-5703705 http://www.shaked.co.il/~nlevy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBN992mNBe37AVcjAxEQJTtACeKZ6gVy4gXZ4EXjcBzv7X6kLZKYIAn362 rfCxaqUxhAceeuDzs70A89CY =wWWw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Is the server a trusted host on the remote machine which owns the tape device? Informix uses rsh to run a dd on the remote which is directed to read from stdin and write to the tape device. You need to be a trusted host to do this. In trying to debug and fix this just do as Informix does and cat a file to and rsh running a cat or dd to a file and if you can get that working the ontapes should work also. Also note that changing LTAPEDEV directly in the onconfig does not take effect until the server is bounced. To change it live you have to use onmonitor (TAPEDEV can be changed manually and takes effect immediately, however). Art S. Kagel news.gate.net wrote in message <7rltle$1pr6$1@news.gate.net>... >I know this subject has been documented before. > >I have been successful in setting up and writing to a remote tape device. I >am able to copy files using tar and/or cpio command, but when I attempt to >use the ONTAPE commands: ontape -s ontape -c these backups fail. > >It can not see the tape device. > >I have the tape device variables set in ONCONFIG file: > >Logical Log Tape Device <server name>:/dev/rmt/0m >Archive Tape Device " " > >Is there a ONTAPE command line I can use for this????? > >Thanks, > >Tim >tojones@gate.net > >