Re: tbtape -s on SCO Unix 3.2.5.0

Brian Johnson wrote: > I am currently working on a upgrade for a system from Informix 4.0 to > Informix 5.x. Within the crontab entry the tbtape -s is running > redirecting standard input to the command to make it automated. > > This is working fine 80% of the time. The problem comes in when the > process recieves an initial error with the tape device unable to be > opened. > After this the process starts to ask which level of archive to run, > but > instead of waiting for a response from the file it gets caught in a > loop > and creates a file in /tmp until the root file system fills. At this > point the SCO will crash and not come back up. > > My question is can anyone tell me is there a better way (or any > other) to > make tbtape runing a level 0 archive of the system? If it errors > out and > aborts due to tape errors that is fine to. We just need to make > this so > it will not crash the entire system. > > > Thanks in advance. > Bryan > Bryan, Here's what we do to get around "the tape not mounted" problem. $INFORMIXDIR/bin/tbtape -s << EOF | head -150 0 EOF The "head" command stops tbtape if the output reaches 150 lines. Make sure that the "number of lines" argument you provide is big enough to handle the normal output of your archive process. This should be available on SCO (we are running Solaris). HTH!! -Dave -- ) \\ / ( /|\\ )\\_/( /|\\ / | \\ (/\\|/\\) / | \\ / | \\ \\`|'/ / | \\ /___|___o_____\\|/_____o___|___\\ __________________/_| '|^ V ^|` |_\\__________________ \\ Internet: | David A. Buchholz | / \\ datacop@cfer.com | Database Administrator | Standard / > Voice: | ConferTech International | Disclaimers < / (303) 633-3089 |___________________________| Apply \\ /_____________________)/ \\\\ V // \\ (_____________________\\ | / V )) (( V \\ | |/ // \\\\ \\| V V