RE: ontape
You must create the "enter.txt" with the following:
1) copy con enter.txt
<ENTER>
<CONTROL-Z>
This will create a file (enter.txt) containing nothing but an ENTER.
You can then do ontape -s -L 0 < enter.txt. Here is the script I use on
NT, after creating the enter.txt file:
set INFORMIXDIR=e:\\informix
set INFORMIXSERVER=commissions
set ONCONFIG=onconfigcopy f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY4 f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY5
copy f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY3 f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY4
copy f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY2 f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY3
copy f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY2
copy f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DUMMY f:\\infwork\\ARCHIVES\\DAILY
e:
cd E:\\share\\infwork\\bat
date < enter.txt >>ontape_s.log 2>>ontape_s2.log
ontape -s -L 0 < enter.txt >>ontape_s.log 2>>ontape_s2.log
Herbert Yates
Database Administrator
Herbert.yates@cibavision.novartis.com
(770)418-3322
-----Original Message-----
From: PaulITID.Matthews@chase.com
[SMTP:PaulITID.Matthews@chase.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 10:12 AM
To: Daniel Willems
Cc: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: ontape
Not heard of doing it that way before, Daniel. Try this one, it
sounds
easier:
echo "\\n\\n" | ontape -s -L 0
Paul Matthews
"Daniel Willems" <willems@soudal.com> on 08/10/98 11:42:52
Please respond to "Daniel Willems" <willems@soudal.com>
To: informix-list@iiug.org
cc: (bcc: Paul'ITID' Matthews/CHASE)
Subject: ontape
Hello ,
Working on a Digital Alpha runningWindows NT 4.0 sp 3 , we use
ontape -s -L 0 to backup our Informix 7.23TC1 database.
I want to use a "at" command to schedule the backup.
The problem I have is that the ontape needs a <newline> at the
command line
after asking for the tape.
Someone told me that I should use the following command :
ontape -s -L 0 < enter.txt where enter.txt is a file containing a <new line> character, but
this
doesn't work ( still waiting after asking for the tape )
Please help