Re: Any BAD effects

Richard Spitz wrote: > > insight@shabakah.com wrote: > > In doing continuous backup, you need a console, is there any bad effects if > > you run it through telnet? > > I did exactly that: Run tbtape -c in a NT telnet session. Then one late > Friday afternoon, the NT machine crashed, which was not discovered until > Monday morning. By that time, the logical logs had long overflown, and > the users were going nuts. > > I learned my lesson and installed another terminal. However, that's also > not a perfect solution: What happens if the server machine reboots? Some- > body has to start the backup process by hand from that terminal. Anyone > know an automated procedure for this suitable to be placed in a rc-script? For IDS 7.xx you can use the ALARMPROGRAM to backup to disk, renaming the output file, as each log file completes then have a cron job sweep then to tape periodically or just let the nightly backup pick the files up. I submitted ksh and binary ALARMPROGRAM handlers to do this to the IIUG Software Repository as utils3_ak.shar. Informix supplies a script, log_full.sh to do this directly to tape using onbar. Art S. Kagel