Re: Hoi to Backup RAW devices?

Posted in 1998

Helmut Leininger — Sat, 26 Sep 1998 10:28:11 +0200 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

dengelsen@my-dejanews.com wrote: > Hello, > > We've currently installed BAAN IV on INFormix online 7.23 on a HP-UX-RISC > machine (9000). We used 2 RAW volumes to store our BAAN-ERP-DATA > > How can we backup this DATA using informix or unix? > Is there a script to do this automatically? > > Please post or e-mail me your answers. Thanks in advance. > > Greetings, > > Ditmar den Engelsen > > -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- > http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum Hi, theoretically, besides the Informix tools (that should be used anyway), you could do a backup in unix using dd. But you should avoid this as Informix / unix don't know of each other and you would backup an inconsistent database when Informix is not offline. Consequently,after a restore you would probably run into problems. -- Helmut Leininger Bull AG / Vienna Unix Support Email: Helmut.Leininger@bull.net This opinion is mine and not necessarily that of my employer. No guarantees whatsoever.