Re: What is savegrp?

Hi, a) see comments from June C. Hunt. b) check $INFORMIXDIR/bin/onbar It's a shell script. Usually this savegrp command is started from there. If you don't want it, feel free to edit the onbar shell script - for that purpose it actually is a shell script. But before removing the savegrp command from the onbar shell script, make sure you understand what it does and what it means when you do not run it (regularly). The idea is, that with the savegrp command in onbar shell script, the ISM internal information (e.g. about backed up objects) is also saved to tape. When recovering from a complete disaster (e.g. your machine and all disks were completely destroyed by a fire and you only have some tapes from your off-site "tape bunker"), the newly installed ISM needs to get to know where which things are on these tapes. The info backed up to tape by savegrp greatly helps with this task. Otherwise ISM has to completely scan all tapes and rebuild the internal info from scratch ... Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 06/16/2005 06:02:17 PM: > I ran ps -ef on one of our systems and saw an Informix owned process running > a program called savegrp, can someone shed some light on what it is and when > it gets executed? > > Thanks in advance > > Regards > > Colin Dawson sending to informix-list