ontape -c

What is the correct way to stop a continuous backup of logical logs through ontape -c? I'm currently testing backup and restore with ontape on a test instance. When I go to do the restore, I've been using control-c to stop ontape -c and it appears to like this. (It says 'Interupt received' and then lists the logs contained on the tape.) I start the restore (ontape -r) and everything goes fine, until I restore logical logs. It says 'Restoring logical logs', reads the tape drive for a few minutes and everything appears to be going fine. However, it never does anything else. I've let hours go by and it still just sits there saying 'Restoring logical logs' with out accessing the tape drive at all. I think that maybe it's just not recognizing the EOF on the tape because I closed ontape -c incorrectly, but I'm not sure. Any help you could give would be great! Thanks

Top Cat wrote: > What is the correct way to stop a continuous backup of logical logs through > ontape -c?> > I'm currently testing backup and restore with ontape on a test instance. > When I go to do the restore, I've been using control-c to stop ontape -c and > it appears to like this. (It says 'Interupt received' and then lists the > logs contained on the tape.) I start the restore (ontape -r) and everything > goes fine, until I restore logical logs. It says 'Restoring logical logs', > reads the tape drive for a few minutes and everything appears to be going > fine. However, it never does anything else. I've let hours go by and it > still just sits there saying 'Restoring logical logs' with out accessing the > tape drive at all. I think that maybe it's just not recognizing the EOF on > the tape because I closed ontape -c incorrectly, but I'm not sure. Any help > you could give would be great! Thanks Hi, What you are doing is fine. ontape captures the break signal and closes the tape correctly. This is the big difference vs. kill -9 !! Regards -- Helmut Leininger Bull AG / Vienna Unix Support Email: h.leininger@bull.at helmut.leininger@bull.net This opinion is mine and not necessarily that of my employer. No guarantees whatsoever.