Re: Odp: crontab + ontape
Create a script to run the ontape backup and schedule this via Cron.
Remember to set up all your Informix environment variables first. We run
the following script and it works fine for us.
"ontape.sh"
#!/bin/ksh
export INFORMIXDIR=/opt/informix
export INFORMIXSERVER=online_prd
export ONCONFIG=onconfig.online_prd
export PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH
ontape -s -L 0 <<EOF
EOF
# note the blank line is used to satisfy the tape mount request
exit $?
In article <6prpaf$2ml$1@news.xmission.com>, Marek Miloszewski
<marek.miloszewski@zes.szczecin.pl> writes
>
>> Is it possible to use ontape with crontab?
>> I tried to find a parameter to disable mount question of ontape but
>>cannot find it. How do I direct ontape to do backup without answering the
>>mount question because the tape is already in the drive? Thank you
>
>We solved this problem with tbunload, which also has no parameter to disable
>mounting question:
>
>echo "" | tbunload
>
>hope this will help,
>Marek
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