RE: Script Parameter Passed to Ontape Restore script
Does this also automatically swap tapes when the ontape process overflows to
more than one tape.? This feature will relieve the backup operator from
having to swap tapes.
Uday
-----Original Message-----
From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@bloomberg.net]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 9:33 AM
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Script Parameter Passed to Ontape Restore script
jhimschoot@CroweChizek.Com wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me the command to pass a parameter to "ontape -r" in a
> batch script? I have been trying the following command, echo "y\\n"|ontape
> -r >> ${LOGFILE}, but the y and n do not get passed. I can be reached a
ontape wants a tty to talk to. On some systems this means that piping in
input does not work. On many systems a 'here script' will work instead:
ontape -r <<EOF >> ${LOGFILEy
y
EOF
No. You would have to write a program to run ontape as a pipe and use
some function like 'expect' (such a function is included in utils3_ak)
to take the prompt and message an operator somehow to change the tape,
or if you have a changer to change tapes automatically, then, once you
know the tape has been changed (perhaps make the operator click a box
in a window) reply to ontape.
Art S. Kagel
"Marichamy, Udaykumar" wrote:
>
> Does this also automatically swap tapes when the ontape process overflows to
> more than one tape.? This feature will relieve the backup operator from
> having to swap tapes.
>
> Uday
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art S. Kagel [mailto:kagel@bloomberg.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 9:33 AM
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: Script Parameter Passed to Ontape Restore script
>
> jhimschoot@CroweChizek.Com wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone tell me the command to pass a parameter to "ontape -r" in a
> > batch script? I have been trying the following command, echo "y\\n"|ontape
> > -r >> ${LOGFILE}, but the y and n do not get passed. I can be reached a
>
> ontape wants a tty to talk to. On some systems this means that piping in
> input does not work. On many systems a 'here script' will work instead:
>
> ontape -r <<EOF >> ${LOGFILE> y
> y
> EOF