Re: Automated / starting Ontape level 0 backup

Tim The simplest way to do this is to create a shell script like so: #!/bin/ksh export INFORMIXSERVER=servername export ONCONFIG=onconfigFileName export INFORMIXDIR=informixdir export PATH=$INFORMIXDIR/bin:$PATH ontape -s -L 0 <<! ! and then put this job in your crontabs file to be executed at a specified time by cron. Make sure there is a writable tape in your tape drive pointed to by the environment variable TAPEDEV. Alternatively, you could decide to dump your backup to disk. I have a shell script in the IIUG archives called IDBB.sh you may want to look at. Since I have multiple instances here, I have a file that specifies the backup schedule for each instance. I do the ontape backups to disk and pipe the backup through gzip to conserve disk space. If there are errors in the backup, the script sends me a email so I can look at it the next day. HTH Sujit Pal ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Automated / starting Ontape level 0 backup Author: "Tim Clifton" <tim.clifton@mexmil.com> at Internet Date: 2/20/98 4:59 PM Hello, I need to run an unattended Level 0 backup via the "ontape -s -L 0" command. Does anyone know how, or has anyone already done this? If so, could you point me in the right direction as I am new to Informix and databases in general? Any help is appreciated. tim.clifton@mexmil.com