Re: Informix support of ONTAPE as cron

Con Woodall wrote: > > CAUTION ???? > > On the subject of ontape to cron with output to disk, > > Over the last several years, the hook in any scheme writing ontape > archive > files to disk instead of tape was the apparent refusal of Informix > to support an attempt to recover should you need to recover from > disk. The documented, supportable approach to recovery was ontape -r > with a tape drive in the TAPEDEV specification in the onconfig file. > At one point, I called Informix tech support, opened a case on the > question, and had it confirmed that indeed they did not support the > disk archive/restore cycle. > > I think I noted recently that someone saying they thought Informix had > changed their position on that. Can whoever made that observation > please confirm it? It was probably June Tong, but I'll let her confirm that. ;-) As far as I know it IS supported. Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ |Mark D. Stock - Informix SA http://www.informix.com |//////// /| |mailto:mdstock@informix.com FAQ http://www.iiug.org |///// / //| | +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | Tel: +27 11 807 0313 |If it's slow, the users complain. |/// / ////| | Fax: +27 11 807 2594 |If it's fast, the users keep quiet.|// / /////| |Cell: +27 83 250 2325 |Therefore, "No news: travels fast"!|/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+