Re: ontape vs onbar

I can't help but think the question shouldn't be is the tool any good or not. What is needed is to understand the amount of downtime (and data loss) your business can cope with in the event of a serious hardware failure. ontape and onbar are 2 of the tools that Informix provides to get your system back up and running. Basically if the tool can meet your business' requirements then it is good. The business needs to be realistic. You can't recover 50Gb in 30 secs. If thats the downtime requirement then other utilities that informix provides, plus utilities the OS vendor provides should be looked at to minimse the downtime. If the tool can meet the business requirements then its a good tool. "brett" <brett@hell.com> wrote in message news:<407b757c$1_1@news.iprimus.com.au>... > Hi all > > Is onbar a viable backup solution with IBS 9.x or is ontape still the best ? > > I keep reading in the newsgroup, talk about using ontape as backup and not > onbar. Why ? > > thanks