Re: Onbar and large databases

To quote Joan Rivers, "Can we talk?" We also have a 150 gig database on HP 9000/T500, HP-UX 10.20, ODS 7.23.UC2, that we are planning on backing up with Alexandria. We have tested this, and when the full system Level 0 does work (read: when it doesn't run out of disk space), it takes forever. We have determined, however, that the speed (or lack of) is because of our hardware configuration (150 gig hung on 1 HP-PB bus), more so than the software. We were able to back up by dbspace, but that won't do much for us unless we can get a full system baseline. Are you sure about having to restore the whole database if one disk fails? I certainly thought you would be able to restore one dbspace - that's why we were doing it that way... Jeffrey E. Screws wrote: > I have a system that I inherited that has a 200gigabyte Informix > database. I need to come up with a more reliable backup procedure. > Currently we use a Spectralogics 10000 tape jukebox, with its > accompanied software "Alexandria". The currect backup process does a > RPF (?? I think this is right) backup of the raw logical volumes (HP-UX > lvm). This requires a full recovery of the entire database if a single > disk fails. It also takes 15 hours with the database offline. > > I am fairly new to the Informix arena, but I had read a little about > Onbar. Is it true that Informix only recommends Onbar for databases of > 10gb or less? > > I need to improve the speed and reliability of the backup for this > database. Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Please post to this group and copy my email address. > jeff.screws@publix.com > > Thanks, > > Jeff Screws > Publix Super Markets,Inc. -- (Milton) Joe Vidrine Randall's Food Markets, Inc. Houston, TX jvidrine@randalls.com (713)917-1016 (voice) (713)917-1000 (fax)