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3-58 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:
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.)
From DB-Monitor
1. From within DB-Monitor, take OnLine to the appropriate mode,
online or quiescent.
2. Select the Archive menu, Create option to begin the archive.
DB-Monitor 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-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. Execute tbtape -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-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.