Re: Ontape Archive Solution Needed....

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. ] -Mikey