Re: Onbar and Multiple Instances

Your problems will not be with OnBar, they will be with ISM. If I'm not mistaken, ISM does not allow you to copy from one machine to another. You CAN do it, if you rename your machine, but this doesn't sound like what you want. MAYBE, you can tweak the production ISM catalog (after copying it to your development machine) to change the name it wants, but I haven't been there or done that. Good Luck, Doug "Jay Aymond" <jaymond@communitycoffee.com> wrote in message news:38ccf45d.229220171@news.intersurf.net... > I have some questions regarding onbar. > > We are using IDS 7.31 on Solaris 2.6 and I have just upgraded my > development server from ontape to onbar. My production server is > still using ontape. > > We have two instanaces of Informix on the development machine ... one > for development and another that contains a full copy of our > production data. Right now, only the development instance uses onbar. > The copy of production still uses ontape. > > > My questions are: > > (1) If I convert my production server to onbar and the second > instance of my development server to onbar, can I still do level-0 > restores from production to my copy of production? If so, is it > pretty straight forward, or do I have to jump through hoops? > > (2) Are there any issues with running two instances of Informix using > onbar? Can they share the same tape drives for logical log backups > and level-0 backups? Do I have to create another ISM subdirectory, or > is that handled transparently? > > > Thanks