Re: Using Onbar to do a system restore

Oliver, You have to address both OnBar and ADSM. For ADSM: modify the ADSM system options on the client to either: a) specify a 'virtualnodename prodbox10', (and, on the ADSM server, authorize devbox11 to access prodbox10). b) change the client name on devbox11 to prodbox10. for OnBar: a) copy the ixbar, $ONCONFIG, and $INFORMIXDIR/etc/oncfg.* files from prodbox10 to devbox11. b) make sure the chunk names/sizes are available c) DO NOT START THE INSTANCE -- you want to do a cold restore, not a warm one. d) do a physical restore and then a logical restore (you don't want to salvage the log files, and OnBar will salvage if you just specify "OnBar -r -w") I think that covers it. Been a few months since I've had to do it, can't find my notes, and I ALWAYS miss something. HTH, Doug <oliver888@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8j1ptn$ek2$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > In article <8ibv5t$4to$1@news.xmission.com>, > Richard Krenek <rkrenek@ihs.com> wrote: > > > > You have to make onbar believe that it is restoring from a backup > taken > > from the machine to which it is being restored. Depending on your > > storage manager this can be a difficult or impossible task. > > > > We use ADSM for our storage manager. It permits this type of restore. > > However, the procedure is not obvious. > > Having done some searches, looks like this is exactly what I need. So, > does anyone know how to "make onbar believe that it is restoring from a > backup taken from the machine to which it is being restored"? Should I > make believe onbar, ADSM or both? > > Can I get some opinions about the following scenario: > > 2 Unix boxes running the same version of Informix (7.31UC3), the first > one called prodbox10 and the second one devbox11. Both running Solaris > 2.6 and both are using ADSM storage manager. > > Is it possible to: > > 1. Create another instance on devbox11 with the same onconfig from > prodbox10 with the same chunks names and sizes (btw is there any easy > way - unix command, to determine a raw partition size?) > 2. Bring the instance up and do onbar -r -t <time>. Remember I have > backups (L0 and L1) of prodbox10 and devbox11. I need prodbox10 backup > to go to devbox11. > > Will this work? What changes, if any, to ixbar should I do? What > commands, if any, should I issue to ADSM (like dsmc -server=prodbox10 or > similar)? > > Looks like Richard asked more or less the same question, but I couldn't > find any straightforward answer. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Oliver > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Richard Krenek > > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Sent: 6/15/00 3:12 PM > > Subject: Using Onbar to do a system restore > > > > Hello all, > > Time for my daily stupid question. We are trying to do a system > > backup on one machine (onbar -b -w) which worked fine. Then we want to > > restore it onto another machine, both have the same version of > > informix. How does it know where to find the backup and how do we > > direct it to another location? > > > > Richard Krenek > > > > > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.