Re: Mirroring and Archives

Paul, >We do a zero level ontape archive each week and a level 1 daily. > >If there is a problem with the database and we have to perform a restore, >can we restore to a machine with the same primary chunk layout but without >mirroring? Yes. > >Does the archive include the mirror chunks? No exactly. But when you restore it wants to write to both the primary and secondary. > >If so, is there a way to only backup the primary chunks? No > But you can create the instance on the other machine with the mirror chunks pointing to /dev/null (using unix links). When you restore Informix will get errors and will mark those chunks as down. But as the primaries are still up you can still access it. I think you just need to create all the links and then do the restore. If you try to initialise the rootdbs it may fail. HTH Jason