RE: Onbar and Multiple Instances

If ISM does not allow a restore to another machine, can ontape be used for those special times when you need to copy the instance to another machine? > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Agnew [SMTP:dagnew@charlottepipe.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 3:17 PM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Onbar and Multiple Instances > > Your problems will not be with OnBar, they will be with ISM. > > If I'm not mistaken, ISM does not allow you to copy from one machine to > another. You CAN do it, if you rename your machine, but this doesn't > sound > like what you want. MAYBE, you can tweak the production ISM catalog > (after > copying it to your development machine) to change the name it wants, but I > haven't been there or done that. > > Good Luck, > Doug > "Jay Aymond" <jaymond@communitycoffee.com> wrote in message > news:38ccf45d.229220171@news.intersurf.net... > > I have some questions regarding onbar. > > > > We are using IDS 7.31 on Solaris 2.6 and I have just upgraded my > > development server from ontape to onbar. My production server is > > still using ontape. > > > > We have two instanaces of Informix on the development machine ... one > > for development and another that contains a full copy of our > > production data. Right now, only the development instance uses onbar. > > The copy of production still uses ontape. > > > > > > My questions are: > > > > (1) If I convert my production server to onbar and the second > > instance of my development server to onbar, can I still do level-0 > > restores from production to my copy of production? If so, is it > > pretty straight forward, or do I have to jump through hoops? > > > > (2) Are there any issues with running two instances of Informix using > > onbar? Can they share the same tape drives for logical log backups > > and level-0 backups? Do I have to create another ISM subdirectory, or > > is that handled transparently? > > > > > > Thanks >

No, use dbexport or onunload if the machines are the same hardware-wise. None >Subject: RE: Onbar and Multiple Instances >From: "Arshad, Shehla" SArshad@purolator.com >Date: 15.03.00 18:07 W. Europe Standard Time >Message-id: <8aoiat$m79$1@news.xmission.com> > > >If ISM does not allow a restore to another machine, can ontape be used for >those special times when you need to copy the instance to another machine? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Doug Agnew [SMTP:dagnew@charlottepipe.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 3:17 PM >> To: informix-list@iiug.org >> Subject: Re: Onbar and Multiple Instances >> >> Your problems will not be with OnBar, they will be with ISM. >> >> If I'm not mistaken, ISM does not allow you to copy from one machine to >> another. You CAN do it, if you rename your machine, but this doesn't >> sound >> like what you want. MAYBE, you can tweak the production ISM catalog >> (after >> copying it to your development machine) to change the name it wants, but I >> haven't been there or done that. >> >> Good Luck, >> Doug >> "Jay Aymond" <jaymond@communitycoffee.com> wrote in message >> news:38ccf45d.229220171@news.intersurf.net... >> > I have some questions regarding onbar. >> > >> > We are using IDS 7.31 on Solaris 2.6 and I have just upgraded my >> > development server from ontape to onbar. My production server is >> > still using ontape. >> > >> > We have two instanaces of Informix on the development machine ... one >> > for development and another that contains a full copy of our >> > production data. Right now, only the development instance uses onbar. >> > The copy of production still uses ontape. >> > >> > >> > My questions are: >> > >> > (1) If I convert my production server to onbar and the second >> > instance of my development server to onbar, can I still do level-0 >> > restores from production to my copy of production? If so, is it >> > pretty straight forward, or do I have to jump through hoops? >> > >> > (2) Are there any issues with running two instances of Informix using >> > onbar? Can they share the same tape drives for logical log backups >> > and level-0 backups? Do I have to create another ISM subdirectory, or >> > is that handled transparently? >> > >> > >> > Thanks >> >