Fw: FWD: use of ISM and ONBar vs ontape

Ok Listers, I'll digress a little. You are aware of the famous quote: "If it ain't broke don't fix it." I have had no problem with using ontape for our backups, however, how can I use ontape (What command) to backup or restore one or more than one dbspace. Currently I do a level 0 backup everynight before we start our End of Day batch process. The application is divided into two distinct components. Hencehas data is stored in two seperate databases. One of those databases is pretty much static. Only a balances update procedure is run at the end of the day. The other database records dynamic transactions throughout the day. I would want to use a different backup and restore strategy for the dynamic database. Can I implement this using ontape? Regards, Denmark W. ----- Original Message ----- From: William Rice <ricew@operamail.com> To: Denmark Weatherburn <dweatherb@btl.net>; Informix Users Group <informix-list@iiug.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:54 AM Subject: RE: FWD: use of ISM and ONBar > >===== Original Message From "Denmark Weatherburn" <dweatherb@btl.net> ===== > >Hi Listers, > > > >Do these procedures apply in the Solaris 2.x environment? > >I use ontape right now, but I need the flexibility to backup and restore one > >database or one dbspace. > > > >Denmark W. > > > > I didn't think onbar provided anymore functionality than ontape as far as > single > dbspace restore without restoring all the logical logs to make it consistent > with the rest of the instance. Is their something I dont know about? > > Will > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from > Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at > http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail > account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > >

Ontape only backs up hte entire server, however, you can restore at the dbspace level so as long as the list of dbspaces used by each database is disjoint no problems restoring one or the other. Art S. Kagel Denmark Weatherburn wrote: > > Ok Listers, > > I'll digress a little. You are aware of the famous quote: > "If it ain't broke don't fix it." > I have had no problem with using ontape for our backups, however, how can I > use ontape (What command) to backup or restore one or more than one dbspace. > Currently I do a level 0 backup everynight before we start our End of Day > batch process. The application is divided into two distinct components. > Hencehas data is stored in two seperate databases. One of those databases > is pretty much static. > Only a balances update procedure is run at the end of the day. > The other database records dynamic transactions throughout the day. > I would want to use a different backup and restore strategy for the dynamic > database. > Can I implement this using ontape? > > Regards, > > Denmark W. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Rice <ricew@operamail.com> > To: Denmark Weatherburn <dweatherb@btl.net>; Informix Users Group > <informix-list@iiug.org> > Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:54 AM > Subject: RE: FWD: use of ISM and ONBar > > > >===== Original Message From "Denmark Weatherburn" <dweatherb@btl.net> > ===== > > >Hi Listers, > > > > > >Do these procedures apply in the Solaris 2.x environment? > > >I use ontape right now, but I need the flexibility to backup and restore > one > > >database or one dbspace. > > > > > >Denmark W. > > > > > > > I didn't think onbar provided anymore functionality than ontape as far as > > single > > dbspace restore without restoring all the logical logs to make it > consistent > > with the rest of the instance. Is their something I dont know about? > > > > Will > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free > service from > > Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit > us at > > http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free > e-mail > > account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >