Run an Archive in the Background and Monitor it
The OnLine archiving programs assume that there will be a user sitting at a terminal monitoring the archiving process. Many times this is not a realistic option due to staffing problems. If you have large-capacity tapes, you can place the archiving and automatic backup of logfiles in the background and monitor them through log files. These techniques will work only if you are absolutely sure that you will not need to change tapes in the middle of an archive. Another reason to buy big DAT tape drives!
Refer to the chapter on "Understanding the Concepts" for a more detailed discussion on archives and the limitations of the OnLine archiving system. In that chapter we presented the following script, ...
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