Re: Point in time recovery

"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.com> wrote: :The storage manager library is available from various archive and :storage vendors as part of their products, such as Legato Networker. :Most of the popular UNIX backup vendors have bought into the POSIX API :that onbar uses so you can have your pick. Yes I realize that, but haven't found any at a cost below several thousand US$. Also few of them are available on SCO Unix that we use. This is too expensive for our customers. Non need (or want it badly enough to pay as much) the other features of these backup products. : Informix is planning a bare :bones storage manager of their own for onbar for 7.3 according to my :grapevine My grapevine sources tell me essentially the same although this automn was mentioned as the time frame. :, but you need not wait until 1998. Due to the hefty price I think we do. I think very many Informix customers are in the same situation. We will probably have to live with the severe limitations of ontape in the meantime. (Onarchive isn't even something to think about for us.) Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org