Re: Unattended Archiving

} } } Re: } } |After having absorbed the OnLine Administrator's Guide via } |osmosis (zzzzz) over the past week, I've got a problem with } |my conversion from SE to OnLine. The problem is archiving. It } |doesn't look like I'm going to be able to do unattended archiving } |because tbtape is interactive. Did I miss something? Is there a } |different command I should be using? I thought about tbunload, } |but it locks the tables and I need 24 hour a day availability. } ------------------------------------------------------------------- } One way would be to use "echo 0 | tbtape -s" (for a level 0 } archive) } } You would need to be fairly sure that the archive will fit on one } tape, tho' } } Cheers, } } Richard Ridley } ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi richard, Your solution is only 90% correct. The command should be : echo '\\n0' | /usr/informix/bin/tbtape -s Cheers, Cynthia Leong Hewlett-Packard,Singapore