Which is best On-Bar and On-Tape

Friends, I need all your opinions on the best approach in configuring onbar and ontape backups. 1) Which is easy to configure. 2) Which type of backup is easy to restore. 3) Is retention enabled for both types. 4) which one is best to configure continuous logical logs. 5) how to verify the backup is valid. please share your valuable answers. thank you all

1) Which is easy to configure. -- ontape, just make changes in the onconfig file 2) Which type of backup is easy to restore. -- ontape 3) Is retention enabled for both types. -- onbar manages retention via the Storage Manager you are using, ontape retention is a more manual process 4) which one is best to configure continuous logical logs. -- either 5) how to verify the backup is valid. -- restore to a different machine (same OS, same IDS, same disk layout) please share your valuable answers. thank you all Keith On 27 March 2018 at 17:50, SIDHU T <mukeshbt1328@hotmail.com> wrote: > Friends, > I need all your opinions on the best approach in configuring onbar and > ontape > backups.> > 1) Which is easy to configure. > 2) Which type of backup is easy to restore. > 3) Is retention enabled for both types. > 4) which one is best to configure continuous logical logs. > 5) how to verify the backup is valid. > please share your valuable answers. thank you all > > > ************************************************************ > ******************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. > >

Which Informix version. For onbar are you using a storage manager or going to be using Informix's built storage Manager? Answers inline. > On 27 March 2018 at 17:50 SIDHU T <mukeshbt1328@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Friends, > I need all your opinions on the best approach in configuring onbar and ontape > backups. > > 1) Which is easy to configure. Are you backing up to tape or disk? onbar is simpler if you are using a 3rd party storage manager to tape. With ontape are you backing up to 1 file, multiple files or a folder? With ontape you need to manage the generated files yourself whereas onbar will do this for you. > 2) Which type of backup is easy to restore. Restoring to the same machine/instance or a different machine/instance? onbar if to the same machine/instance but ontape is not that hard either. > 3) Is retention enabled for both types. ontape retention is manual. onbar can have rentention configured and managed via the onsmsync program > 4) which one is best to configure continuous logical logs. Either support continous logical logs > 5) how to verify the backup is valid. ontape would be via a restore to a test system onbar has abilities to verify a backup but to be sure you would need to restore to a test system > please share your valuable answers. thank you all > > > ******************************************************************************* > Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum. >

Thanks David and Keith In my case im going to use ontape now, because in my environment onbar is configured but i not clear in restoring process of onbar. so that im re configuring with ontape My environment is Linux with IDS 12.10FC5 and primary storage manager configured.

Hi all Please remove me from your list.Thanks & Regards,Long Nguyen On Wednesday, 28 March 2018, 4:26:55 am AEDT, SIDHU T <mukeshbt1328@hotmail.com> wrote: Thanks David and Keith In my case im going to use ontape now, because in my environment onbar is configured but i not clear in restoring process of onbar. so that im re configuring with ontape My environment is Linux with IDS 12.10FC5 and primary storage manager configured. ******************************************************************************* Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.

Hi, I'd like to agree with David than onbar is very easy to configure at the Informix end, however it does need extra configuration at the storage manager end if you are using an enterprise solution. One thing I'd add is that the archecker utility can be used to verify backups. If you're using onbar 'onbar -v' uses archecker. Leaving aside the balanced pros and cons of ontape versus onbar, I would add my opinion that a properly set up onbar system saves copying backups around, offers parallel backup/restore and point in time recovery, and is just generally nicer. I would never go back to ontape. Ben.