Re: Accessing remote tape drive

Marco Greco wrote: > > On 7 Jul 1997, Richard Stanford wrote: > > [snip] > > Er, this only applies for logical backups (ie: continuous logging). > > You can > > change TAPEDEV at any time without requiring an engine bounce. > > > > -Richard > > Ooops! Still, it would be nice not having to tamper with on/tbconfig > just to select > a different tape drive to back up to > > Ciao, > Marco > _______________________________________________________________________________ > Marco Greco <marcog@ctonline.it> rem radioterapia +39 95 447828 fax > 446558 > Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/ 4glworks > http://www.ctonline.it/~marcog Marco, I agree with your assertion. If you recall a while back I had attempted to talk about the ONCONFIG file and how it could be improved. And the idea of having to bounce the engine just to change many of the settings is also something that should be changed. An interactive "control panel" for Online Dynamic Server would be a great idea, and making sure that changes could be applied without having to bounce the engine. Apparently most folks are content with a bounce-based management scheme. The above situation, that CAN be changed dynamically is nice, but the whole engine should be tunable DYNAMICALLY. Currently the real definition of "Dynamic Server" applies only to the ability of the engine to handle large numbers of users--or in the sense that the engine behaves dynamically but no DBA intervention is allowed. Hmmmm... I need to add this to the wish list... :-) -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com (6 6) ------------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com