Re: Onbar & Storage Managers

Emilio wrote: > > I am new to the Informix Online and I am trying to provide a way > to manage backup and restore with On-bar. Here are some of the > questions that I have: > > o Do I really need a storage manager (networker, netbackup). Yup - I'm using ADSM. It works great. Informix do provide a very simple storage manager. You'll have to analyse your requirements. Remember, if you use ADSM (or similar) you can also use it for your system backups - i.e. one centralised backup system, on one server for multiple clients if you want. > > o Since onbar is a command line application, is it practical to write a > backup/restore interface around the onbar utility. (I need to provide > scheduled backups capability as well) ON-Bar is so simple to use that you can put the backup commands into cron or your storage manager's scheduler with ease. > > o Does Storage manager or onbar initiate task. Does my application talk > to onbar or the storate manager. ADSM can schedule the backup (just like scheduling any other UNIX command) or you can use cron. It depends on the complexity of your backup strategy. > > o If onbar initiates and Storage Manager is merely a background process, > how does storage manager communicate events to onbar, i.e. out of tape, > device is busy, etc.? ON-Bar communicates with the storage manager via the XBSA interface. ON-Bar looks after the datbase side of things and the storage manager does the rest. A good example of the right tools for the job, Danny