IBM 000-8697 User Manual
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IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide
Create an Archive, Any Type
A good practice to follow is to label archive tapes with the archive level, date,
time, and tape number provided by OnLine, as shown in the following
example:
time, and tape number provided by OnLine, as shown in the following
example:
Level 1: Wed Nov 27, 1991 20:45 Tape # 3 of xx
Each archive begins with its first tape reel numbered 1 and each additional
tape reel incremented by 1. A five-volume archive is numbered 1 through 5.
(You must supply the value for xx after the archive completes.)
tape reel incremented by 1. A five-volume archive is numbered 1 through 5.
(You must supply the value for xx after the archive completes.)
From DB-Monitor
1.
From within
DB-M
onitor, take OnLine to the appropriate mode,
online or quiescent.
2.
Select the Archive menu, Create option to begin the archive.
DB-M
onitor executes the tbtape process, which begins an interactive
dialogue on the screen.
3.
Place a write-enabled tape on the tape drive device (defined by
TAPEDEV
). Put the device online with the appropriate operating-
system command.
The prompts from
DB-M
onitor ask you to specify the archive level.
4.
Follow the prompts for labelling and mounting new tapes. A
message informs you when the archive is complete.
message informs you when the archive is complete.
From the Command Line
1.
From the command line, take OnLine to the appropriate mode,
online or quiescent.
online or quiescent.
2.
Execute tbtape -s.
Do not create an archive from the command line in background
mode (that is, using the
mode (that is, using the
UNIX
&
operator on the command line). The
create-archive process is interactive, prompting for new tapes if nec-
essary. It is easy to miss the prompts and delay the archive process if
it is executed in background mode.
essary. It is easy to miss the prompts and delay the archive process if
it is executed in background mode.