Re: Research into onbar

On Jul 27, 3:20 pm, "da...@smooth1.co.uk" <da...@smooth1.co.uk> wrote: > On 27 Jul, 11:38, scottishpoet <drybur...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > In my experience of "emergencies" onbar is find but ISM has its > > limitations. ISM is "legato light" and is really only intended for > > backup and recover on a standalone system > > > If clients have other business requirements then they should look at > > "proper" archive and storage managers such as Tivoli and full Legato > > What, you mean pay extra for things DB2, Oracle, Sybase and MSSQL can > do without having to pay extra? > > Train people to learn another product just to be able to backup/ > restore a database? > > Surely Informix should be able to backup/restore the database in the > same way that DB2, Oracle, Sybase and MSSQL can > without replying on another product? That's just baiting David. Informix pioneered online back up and restores an ontape is still more capable and easier to use with or without training than the 'other guys' back up systems. Art S. Kagel