Backup & Restore Granularity

I am fairly new to Informix admin. I was surprised (and disappointed) to learn that On-Tape, On-Archive (and, I believe the up-coming On-Bar) back up and restore only at the dbspace level. WHY NOT AT THE TABLE LEVEL? If a user is in dbaccess, it is frightlenly easy to drop a table. Indeed, the term 'drop' implies to me that one simply does not want to work with a table any more, not the more serious action of blowing it away! Other than assigning a dbspace to each table, is there any other way to backup/restore individual tables? -- ** Paul J. Reimold UNIX Administrator ** ** General Accident Insurance ** ** 436 Walnut Street Phila, PA 19106 ** ** (215) 625-2146/625-4350 (fax)/preimold@genacc-us.com **