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Date: | Fri, 17 Jul 1998 08:52:22 EST |
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Keven Miller wrote:
> I know this has been said before.
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> I believe on the classic, a 2nd, 3rd... media request on a restore/store
> not only printed a message on the console, but it went into the reply
> table as well.
> You could do a RECALL to see that your tape job is waiting for the next
> reel/media.
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> Now on iX, its only a console message.
> I wish its was back in the reply table!
A very loud and wishful ME TOO! I manage two HP3000s and do a
great deal of backup and restore work from remote locations (with
tapes pre-loaded by operators, in one or more of DDS1, DDS3 and
open reel drives). The lack of a recallable mount request
causes real problems. For example, a 'mount next reel' request
on a DDS1 tape, in my particularly environment, would nearly
always mean the tape drive was not compressing the way it was
expected to .... I would confidently abort the backup, force
compression on, put the tape back online and restart. With
an open reel tape, it would nearly always mean somebody left
a huge stack dump deferred in the output printer queues ... and
I could equally confidently abort the backup process, purge or
copy somewhere else the big file, put the tape back online and
start again.
There is a definite need for these messages to be recallable.
How about it, HP?
Ron Burnett
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