RE: ontape utility

Posted in 2001

Sinha, Niraj — Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:37:59 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

you can put it in a script and take teh backup using ontape run the following command : echo "\\n"| ontape -s -L 0 This is for UNIX Niraj -----Original Message----- From: Praveen Tummala [mailto:praveen.tummala@teleatlas.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 8:58 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: ontape utility Hi, Is it possible to execute ontape command using crontab? What exactly my doubt is: ontape needs user interaction to mount the tape, can we do it without the user interaction? Can we redirect the input? Thanks, Praveen.