Re: onarchive question -- help!

> I am currently writing a book for O'Reilly Publishing about enterprise > backup and recovery, and would really appreciate hearing anything > you would like to ask me or tell me. If you have problems with > something, then others will as well. Can you think of anything > else that should go in such a book? Well, i can give you my opinion on a couple of aspects of Informix back-up/recovery functionality. It may be that I have missed something, so I'm pleased to stand corrected: 1. (I have a lot of trouble explaining this point to Informix pros.) I don't really understand why OnLine insists that you have the original paths available for a restore. It should be possible to do a restore as follows; if the chunk(s) for the rootdbs, or any chunk for any other dbspace, is unavailable then the user should be prompted for the name of a valid alternative chunk location. 2. Doing a "strings" on an archive will allow you to pull off the $ONCONFIG settings applicable at the time of the archive. But so far as I am aware, the timestamp of the archive is not available. This could be very useful. 3. ontape should permit the user to specify an alternate location to $TAPEDEV for the location of the archive (for those of us who archive to disk). Regards Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bournemouth, UK