Script file to do back up of OnLine database

In <30i38r$5ac@raffles.technet.sg> kcchow@solomon.technet.sg (Chow Keng Choon) writes: > Hi there, > > We have recently move from Informix Standard Engine (SE) to Informix > OnLine. On our old Engine, we have a rooster for our staff to back the > databases at the end of the day. > > With our new engine we cannot use the our old way of backing up. > Back up (archive) have to done by the database administrator. > I was wondering if anyone have written a backup script to do backup of > Informix Online database. A script that allows other users besides user > Informix to do back up? > > - Ken Chow > kcchow@solomon.technet.sg Why would you want anyone but informix doing backups? Anyway, you ought to automate this entirely. We backup to disk and do a network copy to another node, compressing by >75% along the way. This all happens every night and is completely unattended. Somewhere in the archive for this group is the script we use. Don't ask for it again, tho, 'cause I got in hot water for publishing it the first time. Good luck, __________________________________________________________________ | Clem Akins Standard Disclaimers Apply | | Reynolds Metals Co. "Climb High, Cave Deep!" | | Muscle Shoals, Alabama USA cwakins@leia.rmc.com | |________________________________________________________________|