Re: OnTape to Tape and Disk

Hi, not officially. The trick is to create a named pipe and have a program running that reads from that named pipe. In your case it would read and duplicate the data to the local and to the remote tape device. Regarding the implementation of this program you are on your own (clever shell script or small C-programm, ...). Maybe someone within IIUG has solved that problem already for you. :) In your onconfig file you specify the named pipe as LTAPEDEV. That way "ontape -c" will write the data into the named pipe, so that your program can read the data. You may have to spend some additional thought on the handling of "tapes". As you will still have the LTAPESIZE configured, "ontape -c" will prompt for a new tape every so often. (Currently I'm not sure if the LTAPESIZE=0 is already supported in your version. You may want to check that and possibly give it a try.) Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management Informix URLs list: http://home.arcor.de/mfu1/informix/urls.html Informix in the news: http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=193004835 IBM Information On Demand Global Conference October 15-20, 2006, Anaheim, California see http://www.ibm.com/events/informationondemand informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 10.10.2006 12:30:10: > O/S AIX 5.3 > Engine IDS 9.4 FC6 > We currently use a very simple (but highly effective) archive > mechanism, ontape -L 0 every night (approx 1.25 hrs) and ontape -c (to > a different tape drive) running continuously from a dedicated > terminal. The log tape is changed daily at 10:00 and sent off-site > with the archive tape. > This works for us and prvodes an easily understood and tested restore > mechanism both to the same machine or off-site. > Management have noted that the log tape is on-site and 'vulnerable' to > fire, flood and articulated lorries (ground floor server room !) > whilst it is receiving log files. > I have a second server (also AIX) off-site at the end of a wide pipe > and would like to ship the log files there as they fill (using any > well documented log_full.sh script) however, I want also to retain the > convenience of having the logs on tape to maintain the existing > restore mechanism. > Is it possible to archive completed log files to BOTH tape and disk?? > > Keith > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list