Re: onbar without storage manager?

Desmodromic wrote: > Can I use onbar to backup an Informix instance without using a storage > manager? The Informix instance uses raw device for dbspaces. What I > want to do is use onbar to backup the raw devices to regular UNIX files > and then back these files up to tape. The reason being is that a third > party is supplying the backup solution using Veritas NetBackup but they > do not have the Informix agent for NetBackup. May I suggest to use ontape and Unix scripts? For example, there are very good scripts made by Art Kagel (available at IIUG repository in one of utils*_ak packages of utilities), reliable and easy to adapt to your needs. I have very good experience with them in production. I also backup databases and logs to file system, then those files to library using Legato. Fast, simple, low resorce consuming and reliable. Ontape is much simpler to learn and use than onbar, although somewhat limited. But those limitations often are not important in practice (for example, for my deployments it's enough to have one fast data stream for backup etc). If you ever need a restore (and chances are you will eventually :(, you will understand the value of simplicity of recovery process. And it's hard to find any simpler RDBMS backup/restore tool than ontape, not only in Informix world. On the other hand, if your needs can't be satisfied with ontape, OnBar is available with bundled ISM (Informix Storage Manager) that is, I think, some version of Legato Networker. AFAIK, ISM is available to you with no extra charge when you have IDS license. Darko Krstic