Re: Ontape Archive Solution Needed....

Mike Segel <mikey@segel.com> wrote: :Mark D Stock wrote: :> :[SNIP] :> > sux). Any suggestions??? :> :> Why do you run it at this ungodly hour? Does it impact on performance so much? :> If you have lots of disk you could archive to a disk file then copy to tape at :> your leisure. But I doubt you have 5Gb of disk just lying around! :> :> Otherwise, buy a bigger tape drive! They are cheap compared to work at 3am! :> :Well, for one, the post came from HP. I think that they want to use :the 4mm dat drive standard on their servers? :You could use tcl and expect. The problem is that you still have to :change your tapes. (Unless you have a robot like Storage Tek or :something similar.) :[See I'm not against TCL and expect if it is used in the right : framework. ] Of course you should buy a DLT tape. If you don't like that you may add another tape drive and do what Mike suggests, including the change to the new drive. If you are like me however, and simply hates writing scripts like that, you may want to check out zarchive, a part of the ztools, which can this for you. They can also compress the data so you can manage with your current drive for quite some time. Check www.ztools.com Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company