Using Onbar to do a system restore

Hello all, Time for my daily stupid question. We are trying to do a system backup on one machine (onbar -b -w) which worked fine. Then we want to restore it onto another machine, both have the same version of informix. How does it know where to find the backup and how do we direct it to another location? Richard Krenek

At a minimum, reference the backup/restore guide, which identifies the other files you need to save in addition to the backup set. These files will need to be copied to the destination machine (except possibly ONCONFIG -- if you tweak the one on the destination machine -- chunk path names must match! -- and database server name) If you're using ISM, I think you're outaluck. ISM uses the machine name to identify the backup. MAYBE, if you change the machine name to match, and copy all the ISM catalog stuff, you can do it. Easier to just do an ontape. We've done cross-machine with both OmniBack and ADSM. Someone else has posted messages about problem trying it with Veritas NetBackup. HTH and GOOD LUCK, Doug "Richard Krenek" <rkrenek@ihs.com> wrote in message news:39495780.970AD200@ihs.com... > Hello all, > Time for my daily stupid question. We are trying to do a system > backup on one machine (onbar -b -w) which worked fine. Then we want to > restore it onto another machine, both have the same version of > informix. How does it know where to find the backup and how do we > direct it to another location? > > Richard Krenek > >