Al,

As an alternative to alerting your operators to the tape request you could
add another tape drive to your system and have TurboStore run a "sequential"
backup. This means your operator would mount tapes in both drives and
TurboStore would automatically begin writing to the second tape drive when
the first tape filled up.

The syntax would be:

:file tape1;dev=7
:file tape2;dev=8
:store /; ;show=long;progress;directory;storeset=(*tape1,*tape2)

You can also run the backup to the tapes in parallel, writing to both tapes
simultaneously, but it needlessly introduces complexity to restoring files,
unless backup performance is a serious issue for you.

An added benefit to the second tape device is that it gives you an option to
drop back to one device when one of the drives fails, enabling you to run a
backup instead of waiting for a hardware repair.

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nizzardini, Al" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 12:49 PM
Subject: Turbostore question


> We are using turbostore to perform our daily backups. The backup now
> requiring additional tape mounts. Is there a way to intercept the request
> that goes to the console and send it to everyone log on as op.prod?
>
> TIA,
>
> Al Nizzardini