dbexport completion

[cobdeng]

Hi

Being fairly new to this area, I have to run a dbexport to tape on our Informix Database
I have been advised to use the command
dbexport comwise -c -t /dev/rmt/1m -b 128 -s 18000000

How can I
- Check the contents of the tape
- Check that the command completes successfully
- Extract individual files from the tape

Many thanks

 

[olded]

You can check the exit code of dbexport. If it completes normally, it will be zero else an error creates some other number:

dbexport ....
if [[ $? == 0 ]]
then
echo "dbexport worked"
else
echo "dbexport FAILED!"
fi

Short of permforming a dbimport, again, I don't know how you would check the tape. Also, I don't think there's a way of extracting an individual file.

Regards,

Ed