Re: Both ontape and onbar on the same system?

There is still a possibility that it might work - Assume that you will be using your logs for onbar Try this : Before taking your ontape backup , make sure that your logs are backed up to current - Then , comment out the alarm program onconfig line that calls logfull.sh, or rename logfull.sh to something else so no logs get backed up during the time of your ontape backup - As a result, you will end up with a few full logs that are waiting to be backed up. When ontape backup is complete, uncomment the alarmprogram line in onconfig or rename back to logfull.sh. For if you want to restore with onbar past the time you took your ontape backup, and any logs were backed up with ontape, your onbar point in time will not go beyond the starting time of your ontape. Marco Greco <marco@4glworks.c om> To Sent by: mweallans@panacea.co.uk owner-informix-li cc st@iiug.org informix-list@iiug.org Subject Re: Both ontape and onbar on the 07/06/2005 02:12 same system? PM mweallans@panacea.co.uk wrote: > One of our clients has been using ontape successfully for some time but > have been throwing away logical logs on the basis that they could > restore to the previous night. > > I have persuaded them to look at onbar and to backup their logs and > after a failure to get it working correctly with ISM they are now > implementing a BakBone NetVault Storage Manager based solution. This > is not without difficulty with the dialects of jargon - but we are > getting there slowly. > > However their next challenge is that they would like to run both ontape > and onbar for a period of time to backup the same server. I don't > think that should present a problem - or does anybody think or know > different? > > regards > > Malcolm > > Not a good idea - once you archive logical logs with one tool, they won't be available for archive with the other tool. In short, you'll have plenty of archives, but it's unlikely that you will be able to restore to where you want, or, in case of onbar, there's even the possibility that you won't be able to restore at all -- Ciao, Marco ______________________________________________________________________________ Marco Greco /UK /IBM Standard disclaimers apply! Informix faq http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/informix.htm 4glworks http://www.4glworks.com Informix on Linux http://www.4glworks.com/ifmxlinux.htm sending to informix-list sending to informix-list