ontape -s stalled then restarted Why????

Posted in 2000

InfoJones — Mon, 06 Mar 2000 23:31:11 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

I was recently running an ontape -s backup when the tape drive went idle for about 10 min then continued on it's way and completed with out incident. Are there process' that will suspend ontape (i.e an extra long check point) until they have completed??? Thanks in advance InfoJones