Veritas & OnBar Question : Moving Instances from one machine to

Hi There, I hope you can help .. I have a couple of questions . I have just installed Veritas Storage Manager V 3.2 and have started using Onbar. It's all working fine and I am quite happy with it. We backup all file systems using Veritas and now it's time for the Databases to be done using this I would like to know however, how it is possible to recover a Level 0 Archive made on machine with onbar x to machine Y. Both machines are set up to use veritas for Informix backups of course I know how to do this with ontape and do it all the time to refresh UAT systems... so all the right chunks of the right sizes and sqlhosts & services are all ok. But with Onbar I cannot find out how to do this. Also, if I have 6 backups on Veritas and do not want to go back to the last backup but the third previous one how do I tell onbar to do this ? I have looked into the Doc as but am either blind and cannot see it or it's not there. If anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated. Regards Graham Mitchell ( Platform Hp-ux 10.20 Informix 7.31 )

In article <895fhu$bk2$1@news.xmission.com>, Graham Mitchell <Graham.Mitchell@orange.be> writes > > > Hi There, > > I hope you can help .. I have a couple of questions . > > I have just installed Veritas Storage Manager V 3.2 and have started using >Onbar. > It's all working fine and I am quite happy with it. We backup all file systems >using Veritas > and now it's time for the Databases to be done using this > > I would like to know however, how it is possible to recover a Level 0 Archive >made on > machine with onbar x to machine Y. Both machines are set up to use veritas for >Informix backups > of course > > I know how to do this with ontape and do it all the time to refresh UAT >systems... > so all the right chunks of the right sizes and sqlhosts & services are all ok. >But > with Onbar I cannot find out how to do this. > Copy $INFORMIXDIR+anything in /usr/lib which it linked to it. Under the correct enivorment do onbar -r -w Note the hostname must be the same on the machine you are restoring to! Also the tape device names may need to be the same. > Also, if I have 6 backups on Veritas and do not want to go back to the last >backup > but the third previous one how do I tell onbar to do this ? I have looked >into the > Doc as but am either blind and cannot see it or it's not there. > > If anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated. > > Regards > Graham Mitchell > > ( Platform Hp-ux 10.20 Informix 7.31 ) > > -- David Williams

As far as going back to previous backups, the trick is to edit the ixbar.0 file in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc directory. Identify the date of the backup you wish to use and remove any backups after that one mentioned in the file. Leave the log entries and OnBar will read the log files and restore you to current. At least, that works with OnBar/ADSM, and it is an OnBar solution, so should work with any storage manager. HTH, Doug "Graham Mitchell" <Graham.Mitchell@orange.be> wrote in message news:895fhu$bk2$1@news.xmission.com... > > > Hi There, > > I hope you can help .. I have a couple of questions . > > I have just installed Veritas Storage Manager V 3.2 and have started using > Onbar. > It's all working fine and I am quite happy with it. We backup all file systems > using Veritas > and now it's time for the Databases to be done using this > > I would like to know however, how it is possible to recover a Level 0 Archive > made on > machine with onbar x to machine Y. Both machines are set up to use veritas for > Informix backups > of course > > I know how to do this with ontape and do it all the time to refresh UAT > systems... > so all the right chunks of the right sizes and sqlhosts & services are all ok. > But > with Onbar I cannot find out how to do this. > > Also, if I have 6 backups on Veritas and do not want to go back to the last > backup > but the third previous one how do I tell onbar to do this ? I have looked > into the > Doc as but am either blind and cannot see it or it's not there. > > If anyone can help me it would be very much appreciated. > > Regards > Graham Mitchell > > ( Platform Hp-ux 10.20 Informix 7.31 ) > >