Re: Logical Logs to Disk?

In article <369E3EC9.3AA7@bloomberg.net>, kagel@bloomberg.net wrote: > Abel_Johnson@doh.state.fl.us wrote: > > > > What is this onbar I've been hearing about? I run Informix 7.1 across > > multiple Digital Unix servers. > > OnBar is Informix's newest archive utility which is intended to replace > OnArchive which is/was a third party utility that has had many > problems. OnBar became available with IDS 7.20 and implements ONLY the > Informix side of the archive. It uses a standards based API to talk to > most commercial archiving systems, like Legato networker for example, > known as a Storage Manager, which is then responsible for managing the > archive media and performing actual I/O to/from the archive device(s). > This adds whatever capabilities the Storage Manager has like archiving > over a network, using multiple archive devices in parallel, archiving > multiple instances in parallel to the same storage devices, etc. > > IDS 7.2x did not provide any Storage Manager at all but relied on the > site to provide such. IDS 7.30 supplies a default Storage Manager > which is a limited version of Legato networker (only one tape drive at > a time is supported for example while full Legato can use multiple > drives). > > Art S. Kagel What's the compatibility of this with the full Legato? We're running the full Legato Networker (with Open File Manager for NT) over a mixed-platform server farm (NT, Solaris, IRIX). One NT box and two Suns are running IDS 7.3. The Network Mgr. investigated and was told we'd need to spend an $5000 to have Legato handle the open files on the Sun boxes. Is there something about OnBar that'll allow it to 'talk' to the Legato solution already in place? (This feels like it should be a separate thread but I wanted to make sure the original posters catch the question. Sorry.)