Informix Online 5.10 and Legato Networker
Posted in 1998
Hi Informixers and Networkers, I am presently stuck with Informix Online 5.10 and Networker 4.2C (Siemens-Nixdorf version). In previous versions, there used to be a Networker module called "informixasm" which was supposed to work with Informix "tbtape" to do backups and restores of live Online databases. "informixasm" has been discontinued in current versions of Networker and is no longer supported. However, I was advised by support that it might still work, so I've been using it to backup my Online databases to the Networker system. As far as I could tell, the backups were done ok (at least Online said it was backed up, and data were going onto the tape). Unfortunately, I have never been able to actually test the restore functionality since I had only the production system available. Yes, I know that's very blue-eyed and restore should ALWAYS be tested, but that's how it goes. Now I have a bare-naked machine available to play with, and first thing I did was try to restore with Online 5.10 "tbtape" and "informixasm". However, no data are restored, and "tbtape" just sits there forever waiting for data. Is anybody here on the Networker list or the Informix newsgroup who is using Networker to backup and restore Informix Online 5.x and who could give me some advice? Regards, Richard -- +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | | EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3413 | | Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | | 81366 Munich, Germany | GSM : +49-172-8933578 | +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+