RE: ontape vs onbar

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 05:33:58 -0400, Colin Bull wrote: > > brett wrote >> >> 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 ? >> > Ontape is quick and easy, but does not guarantee consistent restores if > databse is active when backed up. That's just plain wrong unless you are using a version of 5.xx earlier than 5.08. Versions 5.00 through 5.07 had an undetected bug that did miss some pages sometimes when archives were taken during heavy activity, bu it was corrected in 5.08 and OL6.01 through all IDS versions use different algorithms for detecting pages to archive and so NEVER suffered from this problem! > Onbar works with logs to give reliable restore when database is active, and > is therefore more demanding to use. Ummm, actually the pages for archive are gathered by the same thread code for either ontape or onbar, it's just that a different task is listening on the pipe. If ontape is broken, then onbar is also. > Horses for courses. > > Colin Bull > c.bull@videonetworks.com > sending to informix-list