Re: HELP PLEASE: HDR and Recovery scenario

Jack A wrote: > IDS 2000 version 9.2 UC5 running on SunOS 5.8 > > We have HDR over a WAN. The primary machines do not have backup tapes > connected to them. The secondary machines have been connected to a > disk array so that we can do level 0 archives on them. I cannot dump > the databases from the primary over the WAN since it kills the > bandwidth. This is the reason I am trying to do an ontape to disk on > the secondary. > > I have searched the entire Informix documentation and cannot find a > single reference pointing to the fact that you cannot use ontape on > the secondary machine. Yet I see it being posted on this news group > that you cannot use ontape on the secondary. Can some one please clear > this for me once and for all??? It is really dumb that you cannot > backup a secondary instance (Sybase and Sql Server allow you to). The > data is all there. Why can I not back it up? Because the secondary is in recovery mode...? > Anyway, can some one suggest any alternate strategies for this? Any > help is appreciated. Sounds like you're cattle trucked. You can ontape to disk, compress the files and send them down the WAN or ontape to a named pipe | gzcat | WAN | gzcat | cpio or whatever. But really, I'd just get a tape on the primary... -- "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ''' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche