Re: Ontape and jukeboxes

Gabriela Bellani wrote: > > Hi! > > I=92m new in the informix-list but I=92ve already taken advantage of som= > e > good ideas brougth to the net... I=92m wondering if anyone can help > me... > > Our installation has Online 7.13UC1 running in a Sun Sparc 2000 > with Solaris 2.5. > Database size: 25GB ( all raw device in Veritas Vol Manager) > > Running ontape -s -L 0 takes 9-10 hours and we are planning to do it > only on weekends. > By now we have no personnel working on weekends so "someone" > decided that the solution was to buy a "brand new jukebox" to run > unattended back ups. > > The jukebox is completly unaware of the existance of Informix.... > > Has anyone tried to run ontape -s / ontape -c on such a device....? > How do we tell the jukebox to change tapes...? We tried something similar to this. We set the TAPESIZE in the onconfig file to be a very large number and then used a named pipe as the TAPEDEV. The software from the tape library we had read the data from the pipe and wrote it to the tapes. It was then responsible for switching tapes. Since the pipe never reaches the TAPESIZE we specified, Informix wouldn't ask for more tapes. I'm not sure how your jukebox would handle it. Stefanie Vario ZenaComp, Incorporated svario@zenacomp.com