Hello,

can you help me with the following problem ?

I want to do a informix Level0-Backup on a server every night. Additional the logical logs shall be written to disk (a drive that is physically on another server).
I want to configure it this way:

- start the continous logical log backup to disk (ontape -c)
- once a day: stop the logical log backup
- move the file that contains the logical logs to filename.<date>
- start a level0-backup to tape (ontape -s -L 0)
- when the L0-Backup is over: start ontape -c again

The problem is, that I have to do it on a Windows2000-Machine. On Unix it would be not a big problem as I could use the commands ps , grep, kill etc.

How could this be solved in a windows-environment ?

Thanks in advance,

Mario

The easiest way to do this is by using the Informix onbar interface along with a third party tape management product. Depending on your version of Informix and platform, Informix ships with a "lite" version of Legato that can be used to perform backups that do not require the ontape process running continuously.

-- Jim