Re: Help on Informix Backup...

On Tue, 7 May 1996 ash_t1@sfov1.verifone.com wrote: > Hello > > I need to automate backup of archive/logical logs using ontape. > (I think it is simpler than using onautovop). > I use Informix 7.10 on Solaris 2.4. > > Can you help me with: > > 1.How do I bring up "ontape -c" when I bring up my application without > dedicating a terminal? I WOOULD NOT suggest doing that. I think the terminal dedication is the price you pay for using ontape. It does a few things for you. When you cancel ontape -c you get a report of logs on the tape involved and you can be reasonable certain that the cancel happened properly. > 2. How do I automate the <Return> to the "press return" prompted by ontape. You can automate returns as follows: As I said we don't automate ontape -c, but we do allow redirection of input for archive purposes. However we only do this to free up the terminal we start them from and to control the output information from the archive process. ontape -s -L 0 < archive.input \\ >> archive.out 2>> archive.out In this example archive.input contains 2 "0a" entries. the archive.out file will carry the messages that would appear on the console if you were runing the archive interactively. nohup archive.sh & archive.sh contains the ontape you see above. > 3. To stop ontape -c I plan to do a "kill -2 pid", is that ok? > > Would greatly appreciate your replies to my email address listed below. > > Thank You > GAYATHRI > gashok0@ftw.paging.mot.com > > See question 1 response above. Good luck and please test before you use. -- Con Woodall Colorado St. U.; Veterinary Teach. Hosp.; Ft. Collins CO 80523, USofA; 970-491-1244 FAX 970-491-1205 cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu --