RE: Multiple File backup

Posted in 2003

Colin Bull — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:36:39 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Jack A wrote > > > I have 6GB in 2 file systems say /a and /b. I need to back up > to disk. How > do i back up a 5G instance to split across the filesystems ? > It probably > goes something like this ... > The following has been tested on 9.4 FC2 and Tru64 5.1A touch /fs1/tape1.dat /fs2/tape2.dat chmod 660 /fs1/tape1.dat /fs2/tape2.dat ln -s -f /fs1/tape1.dat TAPEBACK Set up TAPEDEV in onmonitor to TAPEBACK with size 3000000 (3GB) ontape -s When prompted for second tape, in another window ln -s -f /fs2/tape2.dat TAPEBACK Of course better than this is Rob Verbroker's -- mknod ontape_pipe p (Set TAPEDEV in onconfig file to this value) touch compressed_ontape_file.Z chmod 660 ontape_pipe compressed_ontape_file.Z compress < ontape_pipe > compressed_ontape_file.Z & echo '0\\n\\n' | ontape -s This takes my tested 1.6GB instance to 266MB. Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list