Re: Informix support of ONTAPE as cron

Con Woodall (cwoodall@vth4.vth.colostate.edu) 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. FYI, the NT version (7.23) of ODS does support archiving to disk using their GUI. In fact, I believe archiving to disk is the default. Joe -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) author of: "INFORMIX DBA Survival Guide" Slaving away on "INFORMIX DEBUGGERS Survival Guide", available early 1998 from Prentice Hall/Informix Press. If you have debugging tips, tools, or ideas to share, please send me some e-mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------