Re: ARC Serve Back-Up Agent for Informix

On Sun, 19 Jul 1998 10:04:33 GMT, in article <35B1C42F.E4320DF9@digital.net>, Robert Rothardt <rothardt@digital.net> wrote: >We are currently running Informix 7.xx on HP-UX 10.2. The informix >database is being used for our company in BAAN IV. We are considering >purchasing ARC Serve Back Up Agent for Informix. Is anyone out there >using this product and can you tell me if this is a viable back-up and >restore configuration for our purposes. We have been using HP Omni-Back >for back-up, but have have not been able to make this implementation >work. Neither the HP folks or the Informix folks have been able to >resolve this problem for us. All replies will be greatly appreciated. I CAN tell you that there are better packages. Lone-Tar by Cactus software comes to mind. You can't tell a thing about a backup package until you need to restore from it. I've _NEVER_ lost a bit of critical data because of a failed or corrupted Lone-Tar backup. (Other reasons such as not backing up or backing up the wrong stuff does not count. :)