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ok good. are you saying your /var/tmp/mytape.pipe file is corrupted?is it still a zero length pipe? if not, you need to recreate it before you start the restore: rm -f /var/tmp/mytape.pipe mknod /var/tmp/mytape.pipe p and is TAPEDEV still set to /var/tmp/mytape.pipe? onstat...

hi - you did shutdown the server 1st, didn't you?

have never used: TAPESIZE 0 it might seem obvious, but you could try changing it to something like TAPESIZE 4000000 #(i.e. 4gb) which is what we used to get over a similar problem...

hi - simple, you do a similar thing in reverse... uncompress -c /var/tmp/mytapebackup.Z > /var/tmp/mytape.pipe & nothing will happen until you start reading from the mytape.pipe file, i.e. until you kick off your ontape -r command. you can always run onstat -D -r from another window to...

hi, try making your tape device a named pipe. this can be read by cat in the background, piped to compress and written out to another file, i.e. mknod /var/tmp/mytape.pipe p # create named pipe edit onconfig file or change TAPEDEV via onmonitor to /var/tmp/mytape.pipe and change tape blocksize...

oh by the way, don't forget these parameters in your onconfig file: ALARMPROGRAM /users/informix/infdir/etc/log_full.sh # Alarm program path # Log Archive Tape Device LTAPEDEV /inf_archives/logs/logical.log # Log tape device path

hi sorry about the late response - here's the script: obviously replace the variables with your own choices. #!/bin/sh export BACKDIR=/inf_archives/logs [ -f ${BACKDIR}/log_full.running ] && exit 0 [ -z "$(ps -ef | grep oninit | grep -v grep)" ] && exit 0 exec 1>> ${BACKDIR}/logical.trc 2>&1...

hi basshead, sorry about the late response, i've been on hols for virtually the whole of august! anyway the script is at work, however i'll be back to work on monday so i'll post it for you then. cheers

if you're still trying to sort it out, try using a here doc. let me know if you need more info.

jack, if you're still interested i can send you a script i wrote which archives the logs for you to disk (and also compresses them). you can then back them up to tape in your own time. the idea is you replace informix's log_full.sh script (rename it to log_full.sh.bac) with the one i'll send...

Thanks for your responses, guys - i figured maybe i'd forgotten a specifier, however to make myself a bit clearer, maschwa i don't actually know what the output is going to be... sorry, i should have said 999,999,999 was just an example of some numeric output - i didn't want to re-invent the...

silly question i know, but how do i use printf to print: 999,999,999 instead of 999999999? i thought there was a format specifier for it!

hi suhaimi, would it help to take a directory listing of the remote system into a temporary file and read that to decide which files to pull over? alternatively you could of course, use remsh with awk or cat and send the output to pg on the local machine, then save it to a local file i.e...

hey ratbs75, this is probably stating the obvious., but have you tried the manual pages for unix commands (e.g. man du, man lp etc from the shell prompt)? They give you an explanation and options for each command and usually contain a few working examples. If your system does not have manual...

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