Hi How do you set-up management classes for Informix backups using the Xopen API. I need to keep the Informix logical logs and the Level1 and Level0 backups for 40 days.
Thks Sean -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Bach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files An include statement will associate a file or structure with a management class, but how do you make it archive rather than backup? Jeff Bach Home Office Open Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -----Original Message----- From: George Lesho [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files Joel, Not sure what you mean by an "onbar log". Are you talking about the Informix logical logs? If so, put them in an "archive" management class/copy group along with your database backups. Each logical log has a unique file name so efforts to expire them if you use backup type management class/copy groups can be frustrating. As an archive, they will expire in a finite number of days (pre copy group rules for the mgmt class). Since you didn't mention how you did your backups, I can't help you with how to pin the archive management class to the backup. I use SQL BackTrack for Informix and they do it when you build one of their "backup pools" (not to be confused with TSM stgpools). If you are not using BMC SBTI for a "storage manager" and are only using TSM, then you may be able to do it in an incl statement. Not sure how TDP for Informix does it... George Lesho AFC Enterprises Joel Fuhrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 11/19/2001 05:46:34 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: George Lesho/Partners/AFC) Fax to: Subject: Informix TDP expire/expiring Onbar log files I'm looking for a script or method to expire onbar logs. If you have one, would you please share it. Back in January 1999, Christoph Martin shared a routine with the adsm list which would expire a file. I wrapped his routine in a perl script which selected the old log file. This worked great until Tivoli "improved" the backup library, added it to the TDP line and started charging the big bucks for it. Now Christoph's routine fails with the error: *** BSAInit failed: (12) An entry in the environment structure is invalid I've tried rebuilding it with the newest API but that didn't help. ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error destroy it immediately. **********************************************************************