onbar clones
Posted in 2003
I'm stumbling my way through setting up onbar and
everything is good =
except for cloning the database archive I backed up to disk onto a tape.
Logs are going to 1 tape drive and the database is going to disk.
Perhaps what I'm trying to do is not even possible, but I want to store =
the database archive on the same tape that holds our regular system =
backups.
I was told this would be possible, but I've also been told wrong before =
by the person that told me that.=20
I'm doing everything from shell scripts (AIX 4.3; Informix 7.31.UC5). =20
I had wanted to simply backup the disk space that held the archive, but =
soon found out that as soon as I relabel the disk device to make a new =
backup, ism forgets about the volume which was previously stored there, =
making a restore from tape futile (as far as I can tell).
If I can't clone directly to the same tape used for backups, can I just =
back up the raw files and somehow trick ism into accepting the volume =
label when I restore it?
I really don't want a tape change in the middle of the backups.
- Danny