3-58 IBM Informix OnLine Database Server Administrator’s Guide
Create an Archive, Any Type
Agood 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:
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
tapereel incremented by 1. A five-volume archive is numbered 1 through 5.
(You must supply the value forxx after the archive completes.)
From DB-Monitor
1. From withinDB-Monitor, take OnLine to the appropriate mode,
online or quiescent.
2. Select the Archive menu, Create option to begin the archive.
DB-Monitorexecutes 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 fromDB-Monitor 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.
From the Command Line
1. From the command line, take OnLine to the appropriate mode,
online or quiescent.
2. Executetbtape -s.
Do not create an archive from the command line in background
mode(that is, using the UNIX &operator on the command line). The
create-archiveprocess 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.