Re: Any BAD effects
All these happened to us as well, but our sys admin doesn't allow us to run
it on the console.
When Screen detach the session, how can you tell if the tape is full?
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Spitz <richard.spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de>
To: informix-list@iiug.org <informix-list@iiug.org>
Date: Friday, August 14, 1998 09:31 '
Subject: Re: Any BAD effects
>insight@shabakah.com wrote:
>> In doing continuous backup, you need a console, is there any bad effects
if
>> you run it through telnet?
>
>I did exactly that: Run tbtape -c in a NT telnet session. Then one late
>Friday afternoon, the NT machine crashed, which was not discovered until
>Monday morning. By that time, the logical logs had long overflown, and
>the users were going nuts.
>
>I learned my lesson and installed another terminal. However, that's also
>not a perfect solution: What happens if the server machine reboots? Some-
>body has to start the backup process by hand from that terminal. Anyone
>know an automated procedure for this suitable to be placed in a rc-script?
>
>The GNU "screen" program is an alternative. Start tbtape -c (or ontape -c)
>in a "screen" session and detach that session. I used to do that, but after
>an OS upgrade, I couldn't get screen to run any more.
>
>Regards, Richard
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