Restore data to a remote server

You can restore data to a remote server with the following command:

ontape -s -L 0 -F | rsh remote_server "ontape -p"

However, the process might hang after completing successfully. You have three primary options:

• Terminate the remote shell process
• Execute the remote shell from the remote server with the following command:

  rsh local_server "ontape -s -L 0 -F" | ontape -p

• Redirect the standard output (stdout) and standard error (stderr) on the remote server with the following command from the sh or bash shell:

  ontape -p >/dev/null 2>&1

• You can simplify this redirection by placing it in a shell script, ontape.sh, on the remote server. You can issue the following command from the local server:

  ontape -s -L 0 -F | rsh remote_server /my/path/ontape.sh

• The shell script ontape.sh contains the following text:

  #!/bin/sh 
  #define some environment variables, such as  
  
  INFORMIXDIR=/... ; export INFORMIXDIR 
  INFORMIXSQLHOSTS=/...; export 
  INFORMIXSQLHOSTS ONCONFIG=/...; export ONCONFIG 
  INFORMIXSERVER=/...; export INFORMIXSERVER 
  PATH=/...; export PATH  
  # invoke ontape with stdout/stderr redirection  
  
  ontape -p >/dev/null 2>&1