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Procedure documentation Checking Tapes After an Archive (ON-Archive and ontape)  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

After an Informix database archive with ON-Archive or ontape , you should perform the legibility check described below. This makes sure that the tapes can be read successfully, if you need to do a restore. For further details of doing a restore, see Restore.

Procedure

  1. Mount the tape to be checked on your tape device and then enter the following command:
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    $ ondatartr ‘LIST/TAPE=(<tape device>)’

    For example, if your tape device was dev/rmt/0m , you would enter:

    $ ondatartr ‘LIST/TAPE=(dev/rmt/0m)’
  2. If the result of this check shows a problem, see SAP Note 61624.

Caution

A faulty tape could endanger the integrity of your database. If you need to do a restore and you use a tape that has failed the legibility check, the restore will fail.

Note

For more information about how to use the archives to restore the database, see Restore.

 

See also:

Checking Result of Database Backup or Archive with Message Log

Checking Archive Result with Activity Log (ON-Archive)

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