Re: Informix Restore Question

Marc Hopkins wrote: > I am running UNIX with Informix 7.20. I was wondering; > If I have a DLT 4000 tape device, and perform a level 0 backup (ontape > -s > -L 0) to the DLT, yet I backup my logical logs on an internal DDS 2 > tape > drive....When I do a full restore from the DLT, is it smart enough to > read > the logical logs from the internal device? If you do a restore on let's say a new box because of hardware failures, the first thing you'll have to do is recreate the same disk layout as on the original system. (I hope for you, your system supports virtual disks...) Next you'll need the onconfig file form the crashed system. This file is the place where the tape devices are specified, so to answer your question: ontape isn't smart enough, the information is in your onconfig and it better be backed up regurlarly. regards Erwin de Beus