Re: Archive spanning tapes...

"Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > drumzspace wrote: [cutting] > > One of our databases is rather large (by our standards, of course) and > > our tape is now getting full, which causes our automated scripts to > > loop, and the archive never finishes (because we never get a chance to > > switch tapes). BTW, it's a Perl script. > > > > What I need to know is, does anyone here have any hints or tips as to > > how I can have a scipt (Perl or otherwise) detect when the tape is full > > and therefore switch to the next tape, or go to a different drive? How > > Have the perl script read and parse the prompts from ontape and when it asks > for a new tape send a message to the autochanger. Expect is very good for handling this sort of thing > > > do you people with massive > > databases deal with this without having to constantly monitor the > > 24x7 operators, lots of them, to constantly monitor the ontape process. Lots of scripts and self checking routines to detect problems, esp if it's 24x7 without 24x7 attendance > > > ontape process? Is an ontape to a disk a viable option? > > Worse since ontape will not write more than 2GB to a disk file. > > Art S. Kagel -- Paul Watson # WF Software # If it was easy Tel ++44 1436 674729 # Everybody could do it Fax ++44 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com/informix #