Re: Recommendation of a 3rd Party Backup software package

Here are my two cents worth. I worked at Legato last year and I would recommend their product. I would like to let you all know about a little known feature that Legato has. It is called consolidated savesets. This is a feature that allows you to create full backups from a previous full backup tape and a subsequent incremental. It works like this. You make a first full backup. Then next time you only need to make an incremental. So you are locking your files and the time to make the backup is much less. Then off-line the tool will "consolidate" from the previous full and current incremental backup, compare the contents of each, take the latest version of files from either, and construct a new full backup. Cool concept, huh? Why Legato doesn't ballyhoo this I don't know. One thing I am not sure of is how it would work with API files such as Informix files. It definitely works with O/S files. If I didn't describe this well enough let me know, or better still ask someone from Legato. You may have to ask more than one person from Legato. It is a new feature and not everyone from Legato knows about it(!). Paul Storm > From owner-informix-list@iiug.org Fri Jun 11 10:10:43 1999 > Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:47:59 -0700 (PDT) > From: sanjeev sagar <sanjeevsagar@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: Recommendation of a 3rd Party Backup software package > To: Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com>, informix-list@iiug.org > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > I tried it with IDS 7.31.UD2, XPS 8.11, UDO 9.x and i am on the edge to > try with XPS 821.UD3 > The only problem with this version is that Informix changed the > bar_version as external table which was not the case with other > versions. As per release note it should work fine and you do not need > to Insert any record in bar_versiob b'coz it will populate from > sm_versions file. Somehow it does not work and Informix recognize it as > bug# 91904. Informix do have patch for it. I am waiting for that patch > and then i will try with 821.UD3. > All the version exists on the same machine. It was just a functional > testing which i did. I will do performance test also with Legato for > IDS, XPS and UDo. > > Legato is really awesome. I worked with other SM also. Legato is easy > and more flexible. > > I will be more happy to answer any other question on the Informix with > Legato. I will appreciate if others can use their experiences. > > > Sanjeev K. Sagar > --- Tim Schaefer <tschaefe@mindspring.com> wrote: > > But Art, > > > > Have you actually done any restores with it? > > > > Tim > > > > "Art S. Kagel" wrote: > > > > > > David Mann wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I'm currently running IDS 7.3 and I am using > > ontape with a file for each > > > > backup device. I'm interested in backing up one > > instance and the logical > > > > logs to disk using a 3rd party tool. A point in > > time recovery feature is a > > > > requirement. > > > > > > > > Does anyone have a favorite backup tool that > > they use? > > > > > > > > I would appreciate any comments. > > > > > > Informix OnBar with Legato Networker is solid. > > > > > > Art S. Kagel > > > > -- > > - > > -- > > --- Tim Schaefer > > ---- tschaefe@mindspring.com > > --- http://www.inxutil.com > > -- > > - > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >