process ontape remaining

Are you running the ontape -a in the background or from a dedicated terminal. Does ontape -a ever come back to the prompt??? The ontape -a should go away. Check the permissions on ontape, oninit. And you could run ontape -a through truss to give you additional information. Darin "comp.databases.informix" wrote: > Hi Informix Gurus, > we're using Informix Online 7.23 on a cluster Solaris 2.6 > We're using ontape -a to backup logical logs into a local disk file. > Logical logs are cleaned but ontape -a process remains as root. > As the process never die, during the next backup we have the following message > "logical backup is already in progress" > > The only way to go on is to kill -9 the past ontape. > > Could anyone help us ? > > Best regards > > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own

Hi Informix Gurus, we're using Informix Online 7.23 on a cluster Solaris 2.6 We're using ontape -a to backup logical logs into a local disk file. Logical logs are cleaned but ontape -a process remains as root. As the process never die, during the next backup we have the following message "logical backup is already in progress" The only way to go on is to kill -9 the past ontape. Could anyone help us ? Best regards -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own

Have you considered an ontape -c for continuous log log backups? As a log log is filled and closed, it's immediately backed up to tape. -Kevyn On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:48:46 GMT, comp.databases.informix <ibois_cartal@my-dejanews.com> wrote: >Hi Informix Gurus, >we're using Informix Online 7.23 on a cluster Solaris 2.6 >We're using ontape -a to backup logical logs into a local disk file. >Logical logs are cleaned but ontape -a process remains as root. >As the process never die, during the next backup we have the following message >"logical backup is already in progress" > >The only way to go on is to kill -9 the past ontape. > >Could anyone help us ? > >Best regards > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own

Kevyn Schneider wrote: > > Have you considered an ontape -c for continuous log log backups? As a > log log is filled and closed, it's immediately backed up to tape. > > -Kevyn > > On Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:48:46 GMT, comp.databases.informix > <ibois_cartal@my-dejanews.com> wrote: > > >Hi Informix Gurus, > >we're using Informix Online 7.23 on a cluster Solaris 2.6 > >We're using ontape -a to backup logical logs into a local disk file. > >Logical logs are cleaned but ontape -a process remains as root. > >As the process never die, during the next backup we have the following message > >"logical backup is already in progress" How are you running the ontape -a? From a script? In the background? I have seen this behavior when ontape is prompting, as it does for another tape change or to ask if you want to back up the current log. try adding an additional newline to your here-script. If you are executing the ontape -a from the ALARMPROGRAM script you may want to get my eventalarm.c program instead. It handles the log complete alarm message as well as all others emailing messages to administrators or their beepers on critical events and it executes ontape -a when a log fills and renames the file preparing for the nextlog and optionally compresses the logfile. Eventalarm is contained in the package utils3_ak I have submitted to the IIUG Software Repository. The program is easily configurable for your needs and includes such niceties as ignoring repeated messages of the same class and severity (like the hundreds of Lock Table Overflow messages that one can see) and only alerting the admins periodically (like hourly) if a condition recurs or persists. Art S. Kagel