Re: archiving via cron job?

Jim Kistler (kistler@an.hp.com) wrote: : I know archiving to disk file via cron job is unsupported but I'm doing : it with Online 5.03, like others! : However, the "tbmonitor" date and time-of-archive information does not : agree with the online.log file nor with with any real clock time on our : system (HP 9000/755/HPUX 9.05). : My cron job runs at 19:52 and the online.log file shows the archive was : done at the time the job ran, but looking at "tbmonitor status archive" I : find the time shown in the "date and time of archive" column is anywhere : from 2 to 3 hours earlier. I believe that the time in tbmonitor is the time of the last ***checkpoint*** before the archive began. Should be easy enough to test. : Informix does not, I am told, rely on this time information for restores : but I am concerned that something else might affect a restore from this : discrepancy. : Can anyone comment on this? : Thanks, : Jim : -- : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ : ## ####### ## ## Jim Kistler : ## ## ## ## kistler@hp-and.an.hp.com : ## ## ## ## Hewlett-Packard Co. : ## ##### #### Imaging Systems : ## ## ## ## ## 3000 Minuteman Road : ## ## ## ## ## Andover, MA 01810 : ######## ## ## ## TEL: 508-659-2251 : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FAX: 508-687-7265~~~~~~~~~~ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) Dallas, Texas ----------------------------------------------------------------------------