Fw: use of ISM and ONBar

Hi Listers, Do these procedures apply in the Solaris 2.x environment? I use ontape right now, but I need the flexibility to backup and restore one database or one dbspace. Denmark W. ----- Original Message ----- From: Obnoxio The Clown <obnoxio@hotmail.com> To: <rborsaru@my-deja.com>; <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 5:12 AM Subject: Re: use of ISM and ONBar > From: rborsaru@my-deja.com > > > >I want to use ONBar and ISM to do my backups. I used ONArchive till now > >but I encounter a lot of problems with UNIX 7.0. I am running Informix > >7.3 on UnixWare 7.0. My problem is that I can not make IECC running. I > >can not find any server from my NT station ( the client station ). > >I installed the IConnect and is running, and from the SQL Editor I can > >find my Informix server. > >Is there something to configured on the server so my IECC client to > >find the server. > >(From the ISM client I can not find any server ) > > The following on your Unix box should do the trick: > > 1. Initialise ISM (ism_startup -init) > 2. Add informix as an administrative user (ism_add -admin > informix@lmnexdb05) > 3. Add the tape device (ism_add -device /dev/rmt/1) > 4. Label the device (ism_op -label /dev/rmt/1 -volume ISMData [or ISMLogs] > -pool ISMData [or ISMLogs]) > > In step 3, your tape device might be different. > You need to do step 4 for data *and* for logs. > > HTH. > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > >