Re: ontape -s to disk

Gene Sais wrote: > OS: AIX 4.3.3 > IDS: 7.23 > > Rather than re-invent the wheel, does anyone have a script that will > backup an Informix db to disk using ontape? I use this procedure to backup into the filesystem and later write the file with the "regular" backup to tape: #!/usr/bin/bash ### settings in onconfig: TAPEDEV /opt/informix/dev/tapedev export INFORMIXDIR=/opt/informix export INFORMIXSERVER=dbadm01 export ONCONFIG=onconfig DATE=`date +"%d%m%Y_%H_%M_%S"` # cd to the backup directory cd /dbadm01a/ifmx_backup # create the tape-file touch tape.$DATE chmod 660 tape.$DATE # cd to the informix device file dir cd /opt/informix/dev # remove old link to tapedev rm tapedev # create the link to the newly created tape-file ln -s /dbadm01a/ifmx_backup/tape.$DATE tapedev # start the backup echo "\\n0" | /opt/informix/bin/ontape -s -L 0 # reduce the size by gzipping the file /usr/bin/gzip /dbadm01a/ifmx_backup/tape.$DATE Johann > > Thanks, > Gene > > P.S. I rather use onbar with ISM, but no $$$ :). Thanks for any > sample scripts. sending to informix-list