Re: How to use ON-Archive?

At 11:23 AM 08-04-98 -0600, you wrote: >In article <3528B32A.EE9@forwiss.fmi.uni-passau.de>, > Rudi Brunner <brunner@forwiss.fmi.uni-passau.de> wrote: > >> I'm using Informix 7.12 under Solaris 2.5. >> >> What I want to do: >> ------------------ >> I want to backup a database daily and automatically on disk (not tape). > >Rudi, > >Forget Onarchive and use ontape. It's not supported to go to disk, but >ONarchive is barely supported at all. It's clunky, hard-to-use, and they >don't support it very well for the same reason. I've got scripts that >automate backing up via ontape to disk or tape. If you're interested, let me >know. Using ontape to disk *is* now supported. With that comes the responsibility to satisfy the program's needs, such as never ever running into the TAPESIZ limit (or the ontape program will ask for another tape), handling the input and output requirements, and ensuring that the copy of the archive is physically protected in the event of machine failure (the purpose of going to tape in the first place.) Onarchive is also supported, but certainly not recommended. It is very complex to configure and implement, though there are things that it can do that ontape cannot easily do. In version 7.3 Informix announced the Informix Storage Manager (ISM.) It is a pared-down version of Legato's product that works with onbar, and comes included with the engine. It contains documented, built-in, fully supported mechanisms for archiving to disk or to tape. There are many scripts for archiving to disk at the web site of the International Informix Users Group http://www.iiug.org . _____________________________________________________________ Clem Akins (aka clem@informix.com) Menlo Park x5937 Technical Customer Course Development Manager Education Services, Informix Software