Re: Informix ON-LINE archiving

In article <Jan.10.22.30.35.1993.27002@remus.rutgers.edu> lad@remus.rutgers.edu (Kamlesh) writes: > > On Informix ON-LINE, is it posssible to automatically archive >databases. Currently, you have to manually run tb-monitor and create >an archive. Is there any way to write a macro or a cron to >automatically backup the database at a certain time? > > >Can anyone suggest any utilities to provide automatic archiving? > >Thanks, > > >Kamlesh >lad@remus.rutgers.edu hi kamlesh, i'll leave the cron stuff up to you but the command line argument to create an archive is tbtape -s which you can incorporate in a cron job. however, you will be prompted for the level of the archive and additional tapes to be mounted, if necessary. hope this helps, regards, ramesh.