How to user remote tape in Informix

Posted in 1999

Topics: Backup & Restore, Platform-Specific Issues

musman@my-deja.com — Thu, 18 Nov 1999 05:01:04 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Hi I have two Sun boxes running Solaris 2.6 with Informix 7.24UC1. I have a DDS-3 Tape drive connected to one server, how can I take Informix backup (using ontape) on the other server. I can take a file system backup in Unix but not Informix Data backup. Any suggestions? regards Muhammad Usman musman@iffco.com Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

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Thomas Parsli — 18 Nov 1999 09:48:28 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

musman@my-deja.com writes: > Hi > > I have two Sun boxes running Solaris 2.6 with Informix 7.24UC1. I have > a DDS-3 Tape drive connected to one server, how can I take Informix > backup (using ontape) on the other server. I can take a file system > backup in Unix but not Informix Data backup. > > Any suggestions? 1) Connectivity The (Informix) user on the machine without a tape must be abel to do rsh to the server with tape without specifying a password This could be your problem (you never told us what the problem was, did you?) as ontape does some remote-shelling with dd between the boxes. 2) Setting TAPEDEV in $ONCONFIG TAPEDEV server:/dev/device_to_use (Your don't have to recycle informix for this Thomas

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