O/S AIX 5.3
Engine IDS 9.4 FC6
We currently use a very simple (but highly effective) archive
mechanism, ontape -L 0 every night (approx 1.25 hrs) and ontape -c (to
a different tape drive) running continuously from a dedicated
terminal. The log tape is changed daily at 10:00 and sent off-site
with the archive tape.
This works for us and prvodes an easily understood and tested restore
mechanism both to the same machine or off-site.
Management have noted that the log tape is on-site and 'vulnerable' to
fire, flood and articulated lorries (ground floor server room !)
whilst it is receiving log files.
I have a second server (also AIX) off-site at the end of a wide pipe
and would like to ship the log files there as they fill (using any
well documented log_full.sh script) however, I want also to retain the
convenience of having the logs on tape to maintain the existing
restore mechanism.
Is it possible to archive completed log files to BOTH tape and disk??

Keith

Keith Simmons wrote:

You can change to using the ALARMPROGRAM to archive logical logs to disk and
immediately rcp the file to the remote machine where a polling script can
archive it to tape.

We do something similar: We use my eventalarm.c program (utils3_ak) in
ALARMPROGRAM. Hourly a cron sweeps any new logical log archive files it
finds (using a touch file to determine what's new) to a sister machine in
our back up data center offsite. At the end of the day the system archives
copy all those files to tape on both machines. Weekly another cron deletes
logical log backups that are older than 7 days.

This results in every logical log file being in two places within an hour or
less of the log completing. By the end of the day they are also on two
daily backup tapes and by the time the next level 0 archive it taken they're
on several and possibly the weekly archive as well.

Art S. Kagel

Keith Simmons wrote:

You can change to using the ALARMPROGRAM to archive logical logs to disk and
immediately rcp the file to the remote machine where a polling script can
archive it to tape.

We do something similar: We use my eventalarm.c program (utils3_ak) in
ALARMPROGRAM. Hourly a cron sweeps any new logical log archive files it
finds (using a touch file to determine what's new) to a sister machine in
our back up data center offsite. At the end of the day the system archives
copy all those files to tape on both machines. Weekly another cron deletes
logical log backups that are older than 7 days.

This results in every logical log file being in two places within an hour or
less of the log completing. By the end of the day they are also on two
daily backup tapes and by the time the next level 0 archive it taken they're
on several and possibly the weekly archive as well.

Art S. Kagel

"Keith Simmons" <smiley73@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.102.1160475810.29455.informix-list@iiug.org...

If you're prepared to backup logs to disks for a short while then spool them
to tape you can script something in ALARMPROGRAM to do this. You can also
use ALARMPROGRAM to copy to different disk sub-systems, eg to internal disk
and SAN, or to a remote system. We do this all the time and have developed
some scripts to do it.

rgds
Neil