Re: ONTAPE as cron

Posted in 1997

Austin Schutz — Tue, 18 Nov 1997 16:46:58 -0800 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Richard Hegewald wrote: > > Rich Newell wrote: > > > > Can I run ONTAPE as a cron?? > > No, it is waiting for operator input. But you can run it in full > operation > Richard Hegewald Doesn't matter. You can automate 'operator input' tasks using Expect for Tcl or Perl's Expect.pm. I've been meaning to write such a script this week. I have a tape changer that holds 10 tapes. I plan on having it do a full dump every night so I only have to play with tapes every week and a half. Austin