Re: Storage managers for use with ONBar

Seth Grimes <grimes@access.digex.net> wrote: > What (XBSA compliant) storage managers work with ON-Bar and what > experiences have list members had with them? The only one I know > about is dbBRZ from SCH Technologies. I haven't done any research; > they were at the WAIUG Forum last week. I have been trying to use Veritas' NetBackup and it has been a complete failure. Veritas has been trying to figure out why but . . . . . In the 7.3 releases (NT and Unix), Legato Light will be bundled and called the Informix Storage Manager (ISM). Legato, as a product, has the highest amount of integration with Informix, their light product not withstanding. Following behind is ADSM and OmniBack. Informix also does not "certify" OnBar products which may be why Veritas' product is not working correctly. They only "certify" that the data delivered to the XBSA layer is as it should be and that they (Informix) correctly processes the required return messages from the Storage Management product. What the SM product does once it receives the data is out of Informix's hands. They can/do not test the SM product as they (Informix) does not have the SM's source code. In other words Buyer Beware. You need to test like crazy including the basic stuff like "onbar -bw; oninit -i; onbar -rw" and see if the instance comes back. Carlton ______________________________________________________________________ Carlton Doe "It's not *over* until I win!" DBA Resources, Inc. -- Les Brown Salt Lake City, UT dbaresrc@xmission.com http://www.xmission.com/~dbaresrc carlton@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org PGP key: finger -l dbaresrc@xmission.com