Re: backup and archive

Jane Johnson wrote: >Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 14:15:05 -0800 > >We are trying to use one tape drive for the archive and the log backup. >we wrote a script to do the backup log first, when this is done, do the >archive. The probelm is that when to swap the tape from log tape to >archive tape without physically checking to see if the log backup has >finished (the light goes off when the backup finishes). It seems that >the >backup runs in the background, so we can't see the log backup status >from the terminal. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! Warning | If you are running Informix OnLine version 7.1x or later it is not possible to do a restore directly from the archive tape if the archive isn't file number 1. If you forward spaces to file 2 before making the restore with ontape, then ontape checks the archive header this works ok, ontape finds the header information but then it rewinds the tape and aborts because now it is not a archive but a log backup or what ever you have as file 1 on the tape. It is described in the manual Archive and Backup Guide in chapter 12. Bjarne /Alm. Brand Denmark