Re: Confirm backups
The IIF2000 documentation seems to say if archecker says it's OK it will be restorable, but they don't mention any support for archeck'd ontapes "Rock, Howard" wrote: > > Archecker does not guarantee that you can restore from a backup tape. I used > to work at a company where I did an archecker after each backup. The > archecker told me the backups were good in every way. My Unix administrator > had changed the tape block size to 1024 in AIX (smit) when I had the > Informix configuration at 512. The archecker continued to say the backups > were perfect. I tried to restore the backup on an identical machine set up > the same way without success. The restore would just go on and on and on. > (24 - 48 hours). I guess if I had a few weeks it might have finished. The > minute I changed the tape block size to 1024 in Informix and created an > archive the restore worked perfectly. > > Basically the only way you can be 100% sure is by periodically restoring the > backups. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:15 AM > To: Paul.Watson@gmaccc.co.uk; djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk; > informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Confirm backups > > From: Paul Watson <Paul.Watson@gmaccc.co.uk> > > > > > >IDS 7.3x comes with archecker which is a utility that can verify an > > > >archive for internal consistency to make sure that nothing needed to > > > >have a successful restore is missing. It verifies system reserved > > > >pages and bitmaps and makes sure that every page indicated on a bitmap > > > >as being in use is present on the archive. Instructions are contained > > > >in the release notes. If you have an earlier version then archecker > > > >is available from tech support. > > > > > > > >Art S. Kagel > > > > > > > Archecker is not supported not even in 7.31.UC4-1 !! > > > It says it is not supported in the release notes.. > > > > > > >Yes but it does work, there just isn't any documentation on how to use > >it. > >Apparently, the documentation is in IIF2000, but I haven't been able to > >find > >it despite having the page numbers > > IDS.2000 manuals can be found at http://www.informix.com/answers and very > interesting they are too... :-> > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Paul Watson # WF Software # If it was easy Tel ++44 1436 674729 # Everybody could do it Fax ++44 1436 678693 # www.wfsoftware.com/informix #