Re: mirroring doc's

In <33665B60.1761@lmrgroup.com>, Tim wrote: >Does anybody have any idea where I can point my finger to find doc's on >Informix Mirroring. My sales person (I know, I should have asked here >first) says that Informix does mirror. I found a page or two in the SQL >Tutorial manual but nowhere else. I am looking to do as they advertise >"mirror across systems". I have used informix 1.0 through 4.0 but I am >new to 6.x and 7.x. Just spent the $xx,xxx for this thing and can't >even find the doc's for it... Tim, In Informix terms "mirroring" is the mechanism of keeping a copy of specified dbspaces on a seperate disk, within the same machine. This could save your life in case of a disk crash, provided your mirrored chunk is in a different disk. Now if you are looking for "mirroring across systems", in Informix terms it is "data replication". Data replication allows you to duplicate ALL the data managed by a database server, on an entirely seperate database server. This could save your life, when your prmary db-server crashes. You can find documentation about this in Database Administrator's Guide. -- Have a nice day Felix K. Mathews mailto:fmathews@systems.dhl.com