The ifxbkpcloud.jar utility

Use the ifxbkpcloud.jar utility to configure an online storage device for the Amazon Simple Storage Service.

The following options are supported by the ifxbkpcloud.jar utility:

  • CREATE_DEVICE provider device [region]
  • DELETE_DEVICE provider device
  • LIST_DEVICES provider
  • DELETE_FILE provider device file
  • LIST_FILES provider device

The parameters for the ifxbkpcloud.jar commands are defined as follows:

  • provider is amazon.
  • device is the name of the storage device.
  • region is one of the following: US_Standard, US_West, EU_Ireland or AP_Singapore.
  • file is the name of backup object (key) stored on Amazon S3.

Error messages from ifxbkpcloud.jar are written to $INFORMIXDIR/ifxbkpcloud.log on UNIX machines and to %INFORMIXDIR%\ifxbkpcloud.log on Windows machines.