ontape vs onbar

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

Depends if you have lots of servers and an external tape silo/autoloader/something then I think onbar is great. I find it more of a pain to setup and get working correctly. I've got two identical systems I look after, one works fine when the onbar is scheduled remotely, one doesn't. I also think the restore is not as straighforward, it's certaily not difficult just not as easy as ontape. Onbar has some nice features, in particular point-time-recovery, parallel backups and automagically generate multiple copies. if you have a single server and locally attached tape drives then I'd go with ontape. It's easy to setup i.e. you do nothing, my sort of task:-)). The restore is a doddle which is important in the middle of the night!! Ontape does what is says on the tin, it backs up and it restores - nothing else With some of the larger systems we look after we still use ontape to disk and then use the remote server to pick the files up, rather than using onbar Cheers Paul brett wrote: > > 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 -- 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 #