Informix support of ONTAPE as cron

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? By the way, I am assuming that someone has actually recovered from disk in the environment described in the latest shell script. Is that so? Even more by the way, has anyone ever had a failure using the disk approach and gotten support from Informix? Pardon my sounding like an old man, but I am an old man. Thanks in advance -- Con Woodall Colorado St. U.; Veterinary Teach. Hosp.; Ft. Collins CO 80523, USofA; 970-491-1244 FAX 970-491-4100 cwoodall@vth1.vth.colostate.edu -- On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Sujit Pal wrote: > Dan > > > I would appreciate a copy of the shell script. We have 33 instances > > running in a 24/7 environment. > > Thank you for your interest. I figured that since more than 1 person > is interested in the script it may benefit others in the newsgroup > as well, and so I am also posting to the newsgroup. > > Heres a copy of /usr/informix/crontab: > --------------------------8<----------~informix/crontab -------------- --------------- STUFF LEFT OUT ---------------