Re: Back-ups to Disk?

I received the forwarded message with this question so I am responding to the list. We have done the backups to disk and restored from them. To do this you need to create an empty file such as with touch. You then set your device to be the filename with the full path. I think I also had to do the local host as a remote host, but I am not sure on this. I was writing to an NFS mounted disk on a host that had a tape system. Now that I have my own tape drives, I don't backup this way anymore. } Do you know anyone who has tried this???? } ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- } } } This post is related to an earlier one about logical logs and named pipes. } I realize that Informix only supports archives and logical logs going to } tape (via tbtape on Rel. 5) at this time. However, I would like the archive } and logical logs to go to disk from which they can be backed up to tape via } the daily UNIX file system backups. I imagine that if one were to dedicate } enough disk space for this purpose, write the appropriate shell scripts, and } arrange for this area of disk to be put to tape daily, then one would have } a fairly reliable backup strategy in place. Has anyone tried this yet? } Has anyone successfully restored (rolled forward) Informix from files on } disk? Please reply with any information you have on this subject. } } Some background on this post: Our computer operations group is moving } towards an 'operatorless environment'. There will be no computer operators } around at night or on weekends to put tapes into DAT drives so that tbtape } can send archives and logical logs to those tapes. We have recently } purchased a system called Alexandria (no plug intended) which will completely } handle the UNIX back ups - scheduling, library functions to track what is } on each tape, control over a 'jukebox' of tape devices so that tapes can } be switched in and out automatically as needed, etc. Hence the desire to } find some way to perform the Informix reliability backups to disk or (better } yet!) to pipe their output into Alexandria. Has anyone out there used } Alexandria yet? } } } ___________________________________________________________________________ __ } John Powell } HP Corvallis, IJBU CIM Dept. } Telnet 750-8389 } Phone (503) 750-8389 } e-mail: jpowell@cv.hp.com (Internet) } ___________________________________________________________________________ _ } } -- David Howard Technical Coordinator, Brigham Young University 403 B CB Provo, UT 84602 (801)378-7390 dlh@byu.edu