Hello everyone

I am trying to backing up the logs on disk.

My onconfig is in the /informix/PRD/ertc directory.
ONCONFIG.SERVER.PRD:
TAPEDEV /backup/prd/prd
TAPEBLK 1024
TAPESIZE 2000000
LTAPEDEV /backup/prd/log/prdlog
LTAPEBLK 1024
LTAPESIZE 2000000

when I am running ontape -a I do obtain the following error:
Performing automatic backup of logical logs.
Logbackup failed - Log backup to device '/dev/null' not allowed


Program over.


What did I missed? Why ontape still try to send to /dev/null and not at /backup/prd/log/prdlog?

Please make sure that you are editing the correct onconfig file.
echo $ONCONFIG
will give you the file name of the onconfig file that your engine is using

I did verify the ONCONFIG environment variable.

It is setted correctly.

when i perform an ontape -s -L 0, it is going at the right place.

But the ontape -a is not.

Is there any known bug with ontape under Informix 7.31 on Linux OS?

I have not heard of any bugs regarding this.

Can you post you $ONCONFIG file
and the output of the "env" command

Did you change onconfig with an editor without bouncing the engine? If so - it's still set to /dev/null. You have to use onmonitor if you want an immediate change.