Re: Backups using ONTAPE

For your first question check the FAQ at www.iiug.org John Postma <john@mks.com> wrote: :Would be interested in how you have your backups setup. :I'd like to run ontape in a cron job, and have ontape -c :backup logical logs continuously to another disk drive which :gets dumped (via unix dump) nightly. This will allow me to :to simply change tapes each morning and that's that. (well :perhaps a second cron to copy the log backup file to log.date :nightly as well). : :The question I have then is, can you run ontape without it :prompting for manual interaction - eg prompt saying "Please :insert tape.." : :Would be interested in knowing how others are automating this :task. : :Second question, ontape for a warm restore is giving a 155 error :waying "Primary and Mirror chunks are bad". A full cold restore :seems to work fine, but not warm. Any ideas? : :Thanks, :John Postma :john@mks.com Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org