some questions about Art's utils3_ak to backup logical log to disk

Art Kagel

2013-06-10 14:45:47 UTC

OK, so it's not clear but it looks like you are using IDS v10.00.xc3. In
that version you cannot archive to or restore from a directory name but
have to use a filename, so the script you used from utils3_ak makes sure
that the file path named in LTAPEDEV exists, is empty, and has the correct
privileges then it runs ontape -a and renames the file to a new name that
includes the logical log numbers that it contains.

To restore the logs, you would first restore a server archive of course and
reply 'Y' when it asks if you want to restore logical logs. Ontape will
then prompt you for the first logical log that it needs. You find the log
archive file that contains that logical log, rename or link it to the path
name that is in LTAPEDEV (linking is best so you don't have to name it back
again later just remove the link) and let ontape continue. It will
continue to prompt you for the log following the last one that the file you
last gave it contains and so you again rename/link the next file and so on
until you either run out of logs to restore or you have reached the
point-in-time to which you want to restore the server.

Art

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Post by joe
os: redhat 5.x
ids version : 10.uc3
Thanks to Art's tool utils3_ak to backup logical log to disk.
I copy log_full.sh to $INFORMIXDIR/etc and modiy
LTAPEDEV , ALARMPROGRAM according to the instructions.
It work now!
I have 2 questions about it
1. How to do the restore from the whole logical logs
that backup in $INFORMIXDIR/archives which named by
logfile+logid .
2. modify ALARMPROGRAM : alarmprogram.sh
to log_full.sh.
What functions will be lost that in alarmprogram.sh ?
Hopefully can get opinion from Art and will be appreciated.
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