Re: Backup and Restore Help!!!

Posted in 1997

Benjamin Petersen — Thu, 17 Jul 1997 09:58:57 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Neal Leitner wrote: > My problem is: I want to backup my On-Line database each night to tape > and be able to selectively restore tables if needed. Ontape does a good ........... > I thought about a dbexport, but my users complained each night when I > kicked them off the system since dbexport requires exclusive access to > each of the tables. > > Does anyone have any ideas or experience with my problem. How about using UNLOAD in SQL ? Then backup the created files. Benjamin Petersen