Configuration Files for ON-Archive (SAP Library - SAP Database Guide: Informix (BC-DB-INF-DBA))

Configuration Files for ON-Archive

Definition

The configuration files contain essential information required by ON-Archive with the Informix database, so that you can perform database archive and logical-log backup.

Use

You should check the parameters in the following configuration files before starting to perform database archives and logical-log backups on your production database:

ONCONFIG for essential information required by ON-Archive

oper_deflt.arc for default parameters in ON-Archive requests

config.arc for general configuration of ON-Archive , especially devices

You need to be logged on as user informix to change any of the above files. You can find these files in the directory $INFORMIXDIR/etc .

Integration

To see how configuration files fit into the wider picture of configuring ON-Archive for data recovery, see Configuration of ON-Archive.

See also:

Informix documentation