Re: Accessing remote tape drive

In article <5pfrl1$ph4@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, From marcog@ctonline.it (Marco Greco), the following was written: > Mind you, I'm on OnLine 5.x though > > BTW, for the wish list, Tim: > wouldn't it be nice if tbtape (and ontape for that matter) had > -t/-b/-s flags like dbexport/import & tbunload/load, so that I don't > have to stop the engine, edit tbconfig to specify a new device, > restart the engine, archive, restop the engine, restore the original > tbconfig and restart the engine for the third time, whenever I want to > archive to some other device? > (and this could apply to ontape too...) You can do all this with tb/onmonitor and here documents. I have a script which does all that for me. Do you want it? It completely automates Informix ontape backups, and yes, it works for 5.x