Re: Difference betw. ONBAR / ONTAPE / Command Center tools?

In article <654o31$904$1@arctic.discover.net>, "Eric R. Gavin" <Eric_Gavin@maf.org> writes >As a new ODS DBA, I'm beginning to examine backing up this beast of burden. >But I see all these different tools! ONTAPE, ON-BAR, and the Command Center >Backup and Resore tools. > ontape was the "original" version and is best if you only want to backup to 1 tape and have no Storage Manager installed. This was written by a company outside of Informix for Informix. onbar is the newest backup tool now written by Informix. It is a kind of replacement which is what it should have been in the first place. onbar works best with a Storage Manager. However the Storage Manager must be XBSA compliant. onbar can support tape jukeboxes (>1 tape), depends upon the Storage Manager. The COmmand Centre Backup and Restore tools I have not seen but they are a GUI type backup tool as opposed to ontape and onbar which are UNIX character based tools. >What's the difference between them? Why would I use one over the other? >Can anybody help me with this? > >Eric Gavin > > -- David Williams