Re: How to continue log backups automatically?

In article , cos@zax.whoville.leftbank.com says... > >Informix OnLine DS 7.22.UC2 on HP-UX 10.20 > >I'd like to run continuous log backups from the console, all the >time. I'm not on site every day, but the operators on site know how >to look at the console and mount new tapes when requested. > >However, there are database users here who sometimes have legitimate >reasons to take Informix briefly offline. I've written a simple >script for them that will also bring the ON-Archive cataloger down, >and then restart it when they restart the server. But the continuous >log backup dies and does not restart. > >Is there any way I can... > - Make the log backup survive an Informix restart? > - Re-start the continuous log backup from my script, but have it run > *on the console* even though users run the script from telnet sessions? > - Have the continous log backup restart itself on the console > periodically, if it's not already running (either via cron or some > ON-Archive feature I haven't absorbed from the manual yet)? > >Any one of these three would solve my problem, and there may be other >possibilities I haven't thought of. > > -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu > -- The Left Bank Operation -- lbo@leftbank.com http://www.leftbank.com/ > "I'm addicted to stress that's the way that I get things done if I'm not > under pressure then I sleep too long and I hang around like a bum I think > I'm going nowhere and that makes me nervous..." -- Jim Infantino, "Stress" I'm fairly new to Informix and a newcomer to logical log backups.There is a cron_autovop utility which allows runs the virtual operator from cron. Perhaps you could use this and the /repeat and /automatic qualifiers in your request. The autovop would execute any new requests seen and the /repeat qualifier should reinsert a successful request in the queue. Barb bgrant@attcapital.com