Shell Programming and Scripting

I am copying a file to tape but it keeps failing, can any body help?
I tried the tar,cp, mv commands and not seems to be working

#!/bin/ksh
#
# Return Codes
# 0 - success
# 1 - failure
#

#
#

dat=`date +%y%m%d`

cp /u07/work/theo_test.log /dev/rmt0/exp_dump.${dat}.$$
if (( ${?} != 0 ))
then
echo "move to tape for oracle exp_dump.${dat}.$$ failed" > /u07/work/temp.$$
mailx -s "MOVE OUTPUT FOR ORACLE failed" ted@ddxm.com< /u07/work/temp.$$
return 1
fi

return 0


BELOW IS THE ERROR MESSAGE


cp: /dev/rmt0/exp_dump.021203.55874: A parameter must be a directory.


CAN ANY ONE HELP WITH THE WORK AROUND OR THE CORRECT SYNTAX TO MAKE THE COPY WORK?

Thanks

Your main problem is the name of your tape drive. You can't get it a random name as you are doing. You didn't tell what system you are using so I can't tell you the name of your tape drive. But it is probably something like: /dev/rmt/0m. It will already exist and you can do an ls -l on it.

You cannot give the resulting tape a "name" like you can a disk file.

And switch back to a program like tar that is tape-drive aware. Don't cp to a tape drive.