November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
22h 46m
English
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Automating Informix Startup: The dbstart.informix.sh Script
Not having a global configuration file makes a lot of things more difficult, one of them being backups. When writing a shell script to back up all Informix instances on a given machine, how do you know what instances to back up? You can’t ask Informix, which definitely does not know about the other instances. I would like to suggest a different method of starting Informix that also would make backups easier. Let’s start with the basics.
In order for an Informix database to be started up after a system
reboot, a startup script must be
placed somewhere in /etc. Startup scripts are
run by root and, therefore, should be owned by root and placed in a
directory that root controls. A startup script in
/etc should not be calling a startup script in
Informix’s home directory. However, this creates an extra task
for both the SAs and DBAs. The DBA must find an SA every time he
wants to add a new instance to the startup script. The SAs would
rather not have to do this, but they don’t want root running
shell scripts found in Informix’s home directory. The SAs also
are normally in charge of backups, and this is one way to find out
that there is a new instance to back up.
How does Oracle accomplish this task? It’s as simple as the
oratab
file. The start-up scripts are in a
directory owned by root, and the oratab file is
in a directory owned by the oracle ID. The startup script starts up
any instances in the oratab file that have a ...
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