Re: Onarchive creating a volume

fry_ja@leg.wa.gov (Jason Fry) wrote: Thanks to all of you who replied. It came to me in a momentary laps of stupidity. I was using the "no rewind" tape device file, so I would create the volume, the tape wouldn't rewind, and when I went to back up the logs OnArchive didn't see the volume label. Everything seems to be on the up and up now. Thanks Again, Jason Fry Washington State Legislative Service Center >I'm real new to the Informix arena so bear with me. I am trying to >backup the logical log files in Informix. I created a vset, which >seemed to go ok, but when I try to create a volume it gives me the >following error. >ARC-I-01098, Not an ONARCHIVE volume. >Proceed and overwrite contents, Cancel operation, or Retry >with another volume? >Enter (P/C/R): >This is all fine and dandy, and the book shows this, but it never asks >me to Initialize this volume. If I proceed, it says that it created a >volume, and I can see the new volume, but when I go to backup, I get >the error: >ARC-I-01098, Not an ONARCHIVE volume. >Cancel operation or Retry with another volume? >Enter (C/R): >I'm kinda at a loss here, so any help/suggestions would be greatly >appreciated. >Thanks much, >Jason Fry >Washington State Legislative Service Center