Start ontape
When you need more than one tape during a backup, the ontape utility prompts for each additional tape.
If the database server is
in maintenance mode, for example, during a conversion, then the ontape utility
can only be started by one of the following users:
- root
- informix
- The user who started the database server (if not the user root or informix)
Restriction: Do not start the ontape utility
in background mode (that is, with the UNIX™ & operator
on the command line). You could also need to provide input from the
terminal or window. When you execute ontape in
background mode, you can miss prompts and delay an operation.
The ontape utility does not include default values for user interaction, nor does it support attempts to retry. When ontape expects a yes-or-no response, it assumes that any response not recognized as a “yes” is “no”.