backup Informix DB

[Dimitar Bachvarov]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:41:01 -0500, Gentian Hila <genti.tech at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know that this might not be the right list to ask this question but
> I though maybe any of you guys could help me.
> 
> Does anybody know any good software, free or for sale that runs on
> RedHat (AS or ES) that backups an Informix DB to a Hard Drive, able to
> backup open files and able to compress the data ?
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> Gentian
> 
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I you have not enough disk space use this:
1. create fifo file for L0 archive as informix
mkfifo -m660 arch-name
2. in archive skripts use this:

bzip2 -[1-9] < arch-name > arch-name.bz2 2>err.log &
echo "\n" | ontape -s -L 0 > ont.log 2>&1

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Dimitar Bachvarov