RE: Onbar - some advice please

I do a level 0 backup every morning at ~03:00 and restore that level 0 to a PIT of 07:00 to a report instance. Runs every morning and never fails. Running 9.40.FC3 with Tivoli Storage Manager 5.2. I also restore to a test and QA instance weekly. I have also restored a monthly level 0 from previous months to a PIT of several days into the month (eg. restored an instance to a PIT of Sep. 6, 2004 at 07:00). On all or the backups and restores I run BAR_MAX_BACKUP 3 and never any problems. Regards, Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [SMTP:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] > On Behalf Of malcolm weallans > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 3:58 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Onbar - some advice please > > I have a number of customers who really need to use onbar. They need > point-in-time recovery, parallel backups, and parallel restores. I > have been trying to get information from IBM/Informix on this but am > held at arms length by a distributor who isn't answering my questions. > > My questions are:- > > Is there a stable 9.3 release which supports point-in-time restore? > > Is there a stable 9.4 release which supports point-in-time restore? > > One of my customers had need of point-in-time recently and it failed. > IBM/Informix recommended that we upgrade to 9.40.FC5 as that fixed a > problem with onbar. Unfortunately the bug that was fixed in 9.40.FC5 > is not the same scenario as my customer. It has only taken 18 days to > get a full description of the bug from IBM/Informix. > > Have any of the members of this esteemed list succeeded in doing > point-in-time restores reliably? and if so with which releases? And > were any special procedures used for backing up? > > regards > > Malcolm > sending to informix-list