Re: table/database/dbspace recovery

Malcolm you might get away a with a rootdbs and some data dbspaces being restored, a lot depends on how the database is split malcolm wrote: > > One of my customers has an 84Gbyte instance which contains a lare > number of databases. They run this 24 by 7. For administrative > reasons they require to access a copy of the database from about 2 > months ago, but they can't revert the whole system. > They do have a parallel machine running the same OS, same version of > IDS, etc, but it doesn't have enough disk space to restore the whole > instance. > > The instance was backed up with ontape, is running on AIX 5.2 running > Informix IDS 9.30. > Is there any way we can do a restore without having all of the chunks > available? > > I suspect we only need a few of the tables. And the dbspace that we > need to restore is at most 5 chunks of 2 Gbytes. > > Any ideas much appreciated. > > Malcolm -- Paul Watson # Oninit Ltd # Growing old is mandatory Tel: +44 1436 672201 # Growing up is optional Fax: +44 1436 678693 # Mob: +44 7818 003457 # www.oninit.com #