re: back up utility needed

What about Alexandria? Why? HP uses it in their complex back up situations - over their own omni back. It is used by the who's who of computer indutry for back up. It is simply the fastest and the best. OK no more hype - substance. for 5.x alex uses tbtape for 6 and 7 alex uses ontape The advantages are: fine Granularity of data base locking: it does't requrie you to to bring an entire tablespace to a quiesent state during back up - this in turn minimizes database performance degregation during back up. I/O performance: the RPF can interleave data from multiple streams to optimize throughtput. Reduced CPU Requirements: the shared memorey config does not load the CPU as much as higher level utilities ( alex 5 - 10 % CPU Overhead, openvision and legato - 40 - 50 % cpu overhead, also much less hard disck space needed and alex is faster than either legato or openvision - omni back - forget it - this product isn't even used by its own co. in complex back up situations. Versatility: works with databases which reside on raw partitions ( raw) or on UNIX file sytem ( Cooked ) Rapiid recovery in the event of catastrophic failure. - Due to data cluster technology Hourly back up of Roll files with OPtional Deletion. Data integrety: tbtape and ontape is supplied and fully supported by informix. Robert Brumwell Oakland Resources 810-799-3022