Re: OnBar experiences with BMC/Legato/SCH dBRZ/Other

I'm implementing OnBar with Informix 7.24 and Legato 5.0. We're spending a great deal of time finding out what works and what doesn't, and writing custom tape management scripts (i.e., cloning tapes for offsite storage, automatically recycling other tapes for reuse, staging continuous logs to a disk device and then copying to tape, etc.). Anyhow -- I think the effort is worth it. I wish it were all included, and some other software other than Legato might include more or make it easier, but I think we finally have something that works, is very automated, fast, and hopefully continues to be reliable. ...Terry. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Barber <beaker@century.demon.co.uk> To: informix-list@iiug.org <informix-list@iiug.org> Date: Tuesday, June 09, 1998 09:28 Subject: OnBar experiences with BMC/Legato/SCH dBRZ/Other > >I'm currently looking at implementing OnBar with a third party backup >product and would appreciate users experiences and problems! > >I've been to the websites for BMC (SQL-BackTrack), Legato, and SCH >(Reelbackup and dBRZ/Informix) and have all the sales-blurb, but would >like to know how they match up in real life. > >The SQL-BackTrack from BMC seems to offer some nice features, how well >does it interface with Legato, (and/or Omniiback and IBM's ADSM). > >Our site is mainly HP 9000 (K460, K220, D350 and a E55) with HP AutoRaid >and some Model 20 arrays. Tape devices (DLT's) located on each machine >but we may go for a centralised backup machine ... > >Our production instance is currently around 10Gb in size and growing (it >should be approximately 15-20Gb by the end of next year), with another >15Gb in our three test instances. > >Anyone using Informix 7.3 and the bundled backup software (which I think >is from Legato)? I take it that it's bundled as part of Informix Online >and not at extra cost? > >Many thanks.... >-- >Simon Barber >