Re: HP-UX / Informix backup
How big is the database ?
The easiest thing (at this time) for you will be to take a ontape backup.
You should be logged in as user informix and make sure that configuration
parameter TAPEDEV is set to the the tape device name. The command to run
will be ontape -s -L 0 (this will do a Level 0 back up of the database).
As far as avoiding change of tapes is concerned, you can use a DLT drive
and tape. This should backup a database as big as 40 Gig in one tape.
Good Luck.
Sameer
On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Nicholas Penney wrote:
} I do not know informix at all and we have nobody
} here at the moment that does, however we currently
} run an informix application on an HP Unix server.
}
} As the informix database is using 'raw' partitions
} the HP backup utility 'fbackup' does not back it
} up.
}
} We really need to copy the informix data out to a
} filesystem before running the backup. Can anyone
} tell me the best way to do this. I have been
} pointed to the sbtape utility that comes with
} informix, but this only seems to write to a tape
} and we do not want to have to use 2 tapes (and
} have the operators swapping the tapes as
} required).
}
} Thanks in advance....
}
} --
} Nicholas Penney, HP-UX Unix Support
}