RE: OnBar and ADSM

Their is no facility available for IDS 7.x users. Informix has written an (onsmsync) synchronization utility for IDS 8.x and 9.2 users. This utility is supposed to synchronize data between Informix and the storage manager. It is also suppose to allow a user to define retention policies and expire older backups. Informix has no plans to port this utility to the IDS 7.x platform. Since we run SAP, it is unlikely that will be upgrading to IDS 9.2, alias Centaur, alias IDS 2000 anytime in the near future. If enough users complain, perhaps Informix may reconsider this decision. In the meantime we are forced to retain all log backups ever created with ADSM -or- manually delete the contents of older tape and hope that the operator does not mistype a tape number and delete live data. Rick Bernstein -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Ehrlich [mailto:ehrlich@TeleBeam.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 13:45 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: OnBar and ADSM We use ADSM as the storage manager for onbar. I was wondering when, and if, the client ever deletes backups of log files or the databases? Does anyone more familiar with onbar than myself have any insight? Thanks, Dan Ehrlich