Re: Informix support of ONTAPE as cron

Con I have recovered from disk backups and also from the gzipped backups that the backup script generates. I have heard about the Informix position about not supporting recovery from anything other than tape, but I am not sure on this one. Can any of Informix's employees or others corraborate or refute this? Fortunately I have never had to call in Informix for recovery, but it would be good to know in any case. Thanks for bringing this up. Sujit Pal Con Woodall <cwoodall@vth4.vth.colostate.edu> wrote in article <64ta2f$7d3@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>... > CAUTION ???? > > On the subject of ontape to cron with output to disk, > > Over the last several years, the hook in any scheme writing ontape archive > files to disk instead of tape was the apparent refusal of Informix > to support an attempt to recover should you need to recover from > disk. The documented, supportable approach to recovery was ontape -r > with a tape drive in the TAPEDEV specification in the onconfig file. > At one point, I called Informix tech support, opened a case on the > question, and had it confirmed that indeed they did not support the > disk archive/restore cycle. > > I think I noted recently that someone saying they thought Informix had > changed their position on that. Can whoever made that observation please > confirm it? > > By the way, I am assuming that someone has actually recovered from > disk in the environment described in the latest shell script. Is that > so? > > Even more by the way, has anyone ever had a failure using the disk > approach and gotten support from Informix? > > Pardon my sounding like an old man, but I am an old man. > > Thanks in advance > > -- > Con Woodall Colorado St. U.; Veterinary Teach. Hosp.; Ft. Collins CO 80523, > USofA; 970-491-1244 FAX 970-491-4100 cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu > -- > > > > On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Sujit Pal wrote: > > > Dan > > > > > I would appreciate a copy of the shell script. We have 33 instances > > > running in a 24/7 environment. > > > > Thank you for your interest. I figured that since more than 1 person > > is interested in the script it may benefit others in the newsgroup > > as well, and so I am also posting to the newsgroup. > > > > Heres a copy of /usr/informix/crontab: > > --------------------------8<----------~informix/crontab -------------- > --------------- > STUFF LEFT OUT > --------------- >