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ontape to filesystem

Posted in 2005

Topics: Backup & Restore, Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion, Versions, Editions & End-of-Life

Darren_Jacobs@carmax.com — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Greetings, I would like to use ontape to backup to a unix filesystem. Is there a certain why the filesystem needs to be created to enable this or will I need to use onbar. I'm currently using IDS 9.40FC2 on HPUX 11i V1and an attempt to backup to a filesystem erros as seen below: $ ontape -s -L 0 Please mount tape 1 on /usr/dbexport and press Return to continue ... could not write archive tape. sending to informix-list

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hariog@yahoo.com — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

As Murray rightly pointed out to create a file with correct owner and permission, just to make it clear, see below: # cd /usr/dbexport # touch <file-name> # chown informix:informix <file-name> # chmod 660 <file-name> Now modify $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG and point this <file-name> to TAPEDEV. BTW, search this newsgroup to find my script to level0 to disk. Hari

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