Re: Archecker

Good answers, with the following "help": Archecker is included in each version 7.3 product. Late-breaking news as of last week was that it will be fully supported, too. See your release notes for official details. Quoth Eric: >John - > >In answer to your questions: Yes, Yes, and Yes > >Yes(1) : Archecker would be able to verify your archives without a full >restore. Not only does it verify the archive, it also verifies the entire restore process up to writing to the actual disk. As far as OnBar knows the restore is a "real" one. >Yes(2) : You could expect to trust Archecker to alert you about a "good" or >"bad" archive. > *** NOTE: please notice that I did not say that Archecker would tell >you if the DATA in the > archive was good or bad (data corruption, bad data entry...) -- it >would tell you if you are missing > pages from the archive or if the pages were mangled... ( page hdrs >corrupt, etc - see the following errors [...errors deleted] >Yes(3) : it is only available from Informix -- contact your sales rep -- if > you have problems email me direct -- I'm running > K2XX systems w/ DLT's also... ;^) One thing that is definitely *not* supported is running copies that you, uh, "found" somewhere. ;^) I'm very happy that Informix is now providing a tool that can provide DBAs with a "warm and fuzzy feeling" about their archives. _____________________________________________________________ Clem Akins (aka clem@informix.com) Menlo Park x5937 Customer Course Development Manager Informix Software, Inc Last seen: In the Mile-High city: Denver!