Re: Backup tools??

Posted in 1999

Art S. Kagel — Fri, 16 Apr 1999 11:42:22 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Jay Walters wrote: > > Being new to Informix, and easily wow'ed by the new thing, I have been > struggling with ISM/onbar as my backup tool, and wondering if using > ontape would make my life easier. > > What tools do people who've been doing this for awhile use? I am on > Windows NT (I know it's not the best platform, and I'd like to go to > UNIX, but todays reality is NT) so that seems to restrict me from > on-archive. 1) Avoid onarchive like the plague. It was one of several of Informix's third party software boondoggles a few years ago. 2) Ontape is indeed easier 3) However, ontape is not as flexible as onbar, not integrated into a corporate archiving system the way onbar can be, and not nearly as fast as onbar CAN be with the right hardware and the right Storage Manager. Art S. Kagel