Diverting the target of an ontape?

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. 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. -- -- Jake (Pondering the color of an asphyxiated smurf) +------------------------------------------------------------+ | The expedient performance of a task with excessive concern | | regarding its duration-to-completion engenders a virtual | | certainty of diminished benefit therefrom. | | -- Benjamin Franklin (but he said it in 3 words) | +------------------------------------------------------------+