Re: Informix support of ONTAPE as cron
Joe is right, the OWGS for NT does 9in fact default to archiving to disk
for both the system and the logs. I never got round to doing a restore
though! I am puzzled as to how it could work.
regards
Malcolm
At 14:52 19/11/97 GMT, Joe Lumbley wrote:
}Con Woodall (cwoodall@vth4.vth.colostate.edu) wrote:
}: CAUTION ????
}
}: On the subject of ontape to cron with output to disk,
}
}: Over the last several years, the hook in any scheme writing ontape archive
}: files to disk instead of tape was the apparent refusal of Informix
}: to support an attempt to recover should you need to recover from
}: disk. The documented, supportable approach to recovery was ontape -r
}: with a tape drive in the TAPEDEV specification in the onconfig file.
}: At one point, I called Informix tech support, opened a case on the
}: question, and had it confirmed that indeed they did not support the
}: disk archive/restore cycle.
}
}FYI, the NT version (7.23) of ODS does support archiving to disk using
}their GUI. In fact, I believe archiving to disk is the default.
}
}
}Joe
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