Re: IDS (IUS) backup and recovery??

David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> writes: > I believe 7.3 will have a default storage manager... Yes, but I'm interested in 9.12. > When I went on my Informix DBA course and Informix UK even the > Informix instructor did not recommend OnArchive. > OnArhive was NOT written by Informix but by an outside contractor. The advantages for me of ON-Archive appear to be parallelization, built-in compression, and backup of selected db spaces. Since I'll be logging smart blobs -- but would prefer to back them up less frequently than non-blob data is backed up -- these features could be useful. > I would use ontape remembering that point in time > recovery is not available and you can only use one tape > drive containing one tape.. I plan to back up to disk and then have the system tape backups pick up the DB backup file. Seth -- -- Seth Grimes Alta Plana Internet & database design & development grimes@altaplana.com http://altaplana.com 301-891-2581 grimes@access.digex.net http://www.access.digex.net/~grimes