Re: Restore a specific table or database...HOW?

> One of the things I've been screaming about forever is the lack of a logical > level archive product. We are finally looking at 3rd parties like DGC > (they make Intelligencia) and OpenVision (OpenV Archive). > > If Informix would trash dbexport and tbunload, and make ONE really good > (and fast) product that will support real archiving with archives that > are compatible across releases, then they'd be doing all of us a favor. > > tbtape and onarchive are not real archiving products. They are disaster > recovery **backup** products. A real archiving product would let you > restore databases or tables going back to any time period, any release. > Amen! Preach it, Brother. You may have thought it to be only your humble opinion, but many of us share it. -- Dan Madvig e-mail: d-madvig@bethel.edu Bethel College & Seminary phone: (612) 638-6414 3900 Bethel Drive fax: (612) 638-6001 St. Paul, MN 55112 Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. *Teach* a man to fish, and he'll keep worms in the fridge.