Bill, I don't know of any way to ASSIGN a virtual tape file at TCL in UV 10.x.
You might try a file transfer utility, eg. offered by Accuterm or Wintegrate. hth, Dave Dave Taylor President Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. 49 Aspen Way Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) (O) 310-544-1974 (P) 800-339-1497 (F) 310-377-3550 Your Source for Integrated EDI Translation and DataSync Integration www.sysmarkinfo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Haskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 12:49 PM Subject: [U2] T-DUMP > I posted this once before and have checked with some other experts. > However, we're coming up empty and hope someone has experience with this. > > I want to T-DUMP a file from UniVerse and T-LOAD it onto UniData. As we > don't use tapes anymore I need to create some kind of virtual tape file. > > In D3 I'd do the following: > > :DEV-MAKE -T TAPE -A "E:\Backups\DiskBackup,p" > :SET-DEVICE 3 <-- assuming the above command created device#3 > :T-REW > :T-DUMP CUSTOMERFILE > :T-REW > :T-DET > > This "E:\Backups\DiskBackup" file could then be handled like any other file > and sent to another D3 machine (either NT or Linux although the commands are > slightly different for D3Linux). There, one could: > > :DEV-MAKE -T TAPE -A "D:\DiskBackup,p" > :SET-DEVICE 4 <-- assuming the above command created device#4 > :T-REW > :T-LOAD CUSTOMERFILE > :T-REW > :T-DET > > The first two steps are what we're having problems with; defining a device > and attaching it before we execute the "tape" commands. We've found that > UniAdmin doesn't create a &DEVICE& file properly and when we adjust the > &DEVICE& item and try: > > ASSIGN DiskBackup TO MTU 0 > Error, cannot get tape device configuration (87). > > We know UniAdmin will do a full, daily, or weekly backup directly to any > file (including path) we want; so UniAdmin knows how to define and assign > (or assign and attach) a Windows file path. > > Can anyone tell me how to define and assign a "virtual tape file" so I can > T-DUMP from UV and T-LOAD onto UD? > > As always, I appreciate any help anyone can offer. :-) > > Bill Haskett > Advantos Systems, Inc. > www.advantos.net > (760)944-5570 (CA) > (360)923-4838 (WA) > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
