ontape to a tapedrive on a different server

I've been supporting our PowerBuilder applications using Informix databases for about 3 years. I've had no dba training on any database but I'm getting by. I use the google groups a lot to try to learn something. Unfortunately, you often speak in a foreign language...Informix! Monday morning, we had a server crash in a power outage and weren't able to recover it. Yes, it was on a UPS but something failed. I had backup tapes but the tape drive in the server also broke...physically. The server tech said the "leader" broke. In order to get the tape out, the drive had to be destroyed. We found another drive that could read the tape but it couldn't be connected to the server we were rebuilding to replace the crashed server. One of my backup tapes was the server backup. We restored that tape to a network server. I copied the chunk files from the IFMXDATA folder on tape into the IFMXDATA folder in the new install. That backup was from Friday morning so the users lost all their work after Friday morning. I also had a tape from an ontape -s -L 0 that was run Monday morning shortly before the power outage. Is there anyway I could have run ontape -r on the new server and have it get the backup from the remote tape drive through the network? Thanks for any help!

"Tina Moriarty" <tmoriarty@masterbrandcabinets.com> wrote in message news:e2ff9196.0402191112.74f3913c@posting.google.com... >. Is there anyway I could have run ontape -r > on the new server and have it get the backup from the remote tape > drive through the network? Yes, you could have done, by defining the remote server and tape drive in the TAPEDEV parameter in the onconfig file. For example: TAPEDEV tinas_network_server:/dev/tapedev You don't say which OS you are using and there would have been some (surmountable) issues about getting access to the remote server's tape device.