RE: Questions about ontape

Posted in 2000

Dawn Walker — Wed, 31 May 2000 16:29:26 -0700 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

We do ontape -s (level 0) every morning while users are in with no problems and no noticeable decline in performance. It is finished before any real heavy processing starts for the day though. -----Original Message----- From: CKGeier@nwc.edu [mailto:CKGeier@nwc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 3:20 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Questions about ontape What kind of backup is ontape? How does it work? Is it a "dd" or something else? I have read we can work through the backup with no ill-effects, but will processing be slowed? Are tables or other structures locked, other than blobs fields, when the archive is running? We want to run a mergeid process at night, when these ontape archives are being created. TIA and thanks for answering my earlier questions today! Cathy Geier Unix/web/DB admin Northwestern College St. Paul, MN 651-631-5284