RE: Is table or database level backup possible?

>Hi. We are running 7.20 on HP-UX 10.01. I am new to Informix and have a >question about backup/restore. It appears that I can use ontape to backup >the instance, but I must restore the whole instance to get a single >database or table back. I was thinking about doing an ontape and also >dbexporting all of the databases and letting them get backed up with the >regular file system backups. > >How do others backup/configure their instances to allow the restoration of >single tables or databases? Is there 3rd party software that will help >with this? Be sure to investigate On-Bar, imminently available in the 7.21 release. As of the User Conference it was not planned to include a table-level backup, but it does do a dbspace-level backup. It is the future of Informix archiving, and you want to know the whole story as part of your evaluation. ______________________________________________________ Clem Akins (aka clema@informix.com) Informix Software, Inc (Standard disclaimers apply) International Technical Support Last seen: back in Menlo Park, California