RE: online backup of 9.21 with onbar ?

A backup produced by ontape, or onbar, includes backing up the current logs. This means that recovery is possible to the time that the log started. After all, once the restore is completed it goes through recovery which rolls back incomplete transactions. So, the backup is consistent. You will suffer without log backup in that you will not be able to do partial restores, and,if using onbar, you won't be able to do Point-in-time restore. Regards Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of brett Sent: 11 May 2004 04:41 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: online backup of 9.21 with onbar ? You need to backup the logs !!! If you dont you will have a crappy backup that is inconsistent. "zafyil" <zafer_yildirim@lycos.com> wrote in message news:1f7e2deed1a4af8984a4ad4ef2ff6326@localhost.talkaboutdatabases.com.. . > Hello Informix gurus, > > Here is what I intend to do. Please check and tell me that if way is > correct or not. > > We have Informix 9.21, hp-ux 11.00 > > I want to backup the database online with onbar utility, while users > are inserting, deleting and reporting the database tables. Our > database is in on-line mode. Currently LTAPEDEV=/dev/null > > My Steps: > 1) I will install Legato Networker Client and networker module for > Informix > 2) will not backup logical logs > 3) It means, I will make whole-system backup (onbar -b -w) > > My question is while my database is online and in use by users, can I > have a whole-system backup without backing up the logical logs by > setting the LTAPEDEV=/dev/null > > My concerns are: after every logs is filled, will my database hang? If > yes, will I be able to cancel my backup and what will I have to do > after I cancel. > > Please help > Thanks in advance > ZY > > > > > > > > > > sending to informix-list