Re: onarchive vs ontape

Posted in 1999

Obnoxio The Clown — Sun, 22 Aug 1999 23:13:22 BST — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: Willem Roos <wroos@shoprite.co.za> > >I know this might be a very old debate, but will some kind >soul give me a good excuse for not using onarchive. I'm >on 7.23 UW7 and don't have a 3rd party storage manager, so >it's ontape or onarchive. I need to convince others that >point-in-time recovery is not worth the effort of using >onarchive. Here's a nice, clear, simple reason: if you backup using onarchive, you are at a very large risk of not being able to restore. Good enough? :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com