Re: Restoring To A Point In Time

Robert Buxton <buxtonr@Enersis.co.nz> offerred: +We're running Informix 7.23 on a Digital Unix 4.0B Cluster. We'll also +be running Informix 7.?? on NT 4.0. For reasons of application design it +seems as though we may need to synchronise the Archives on these two +platforms. No problems there. We're using ontape to do the Archives. +I've neen told that it is not possible to restore an Informix Database +to a Point in time using the Logs to roll forward from the last Archive. +Is this true? It is true. Ontape does not support point-in-time recovery. +If this is not possible with ontape, is it possible with any of the +other Informix Archive Products? Onbar supports point-in-time recovery. Bear in mind that prior to 7.3, you needed a 3rd party storage volume manager in addition to OnBar. With 7.3, Informix provides a SVM. Note that archives created with ontape cannot be used with Onbar; you will need to create a new archive using onbar . -- Dave Kosenko davek@summitdata.com Director of Training Services (732) 469-4070 Summit Data Group (an Informix Authorized Education Center)