Re: Testing Online 5.0's tbtape backup ... How?

Christian Hernoux wrote: > > How can I obtain Arc_checker utility ? > > Informix France doesn't know it ? > > Regards from France (Normandy). > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Art S. Kagel <kagel@bloomberg.com> [SNIP] > } > }There is a utility Arc_checker written by John Miller and (sorry guys > }I've forgotten). Try getting it from phone support. If you have a > }version of 5.0x prior to 5.08 you really should check your backups or > }upgrade. Contact Informix's Advanced Technology Group, or have French sales do so. They can get it for you. The best solution, however, is to upgrade to versions 5.08 or 7.14 and higher. The bug, which apparently has existed for years in all earlier versions caused scattered pages to not be archived if there was sufficiently heavy update activity on the engine during the backup. This was finally fixed in 5.08+ and 7.14+. Art S. Kagel