We have Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.1 running on AIX 5.1. TSM is
used to backup several AIX servers running Informix, several Informix
databases, a couple of Windows servers, and a few developer Windows
desktops. All of the AIX and Windows system backups are scheduled via
TSM and are run automatically. The Informix backups are done via Onbar
to Tivoli Data Protection for Informix.

My question is this - how are most people scheduling the Informix
database backups? What seems to work best and is the most reliable?

I know that one method is to trigger the Onbar command via cron. I have
also tried the scheduling via TSM but have not been able to get that to
work yet.

Thanks, Chris Peek
sending to informix-list

If your cron script works, but the same script via TSM doesn't, then
try learning what the environmental variables are from the two by
putting an "env" statement inside your Informix backup script. This
would be similar to:

#!/bin/sh
env > /tmp/env.out

I'll bet that the environmental variables from when you run the script
from cron don't match the variables when you run the script from TSM.
HTH.

Brice Avila

"PEEK, CHRISTOPHER" <cpeek@hcso.tampa.fl.us> wrote in message news:<ck1ikn$c4h$1@news.xmission.com>...
> We have Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 5.1 running on AIX 5.1. TSM is
> used to backup several AIX servers running Informix, several Informix
> databases, a couple of Windows servers, and a few developer Windows
> desktops. All of the AIX and Windows system backups are scheduled via
> TSM and are run automatically. The Informix backups are done via Onbar
> to Tivoli Data Protection for Informix.
>
> My question is this - how are most people scheduling the Informix
> database backups? What seems to work best and is the most reliable?
>
> I know that one method is to trigger the Onbar command via cron. I have
> also tried the scheduling via TSM but have not been able to get that to
> work yet.
>
> Thanks, Chris Peek
> sending to informix-list