Re: On-Archive

Posted in 1997

John Morton — Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:17:14 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

wardr@gusco.com (Rick Ward) wrote: >Can anyone out there let me know if they use on-archive, how they have found it, We used on-archive when we first intalled informix about 18 months ago, beacuse we liked the idea of "labelled tapes" and a catalogue for the archives & backups. However, we found that it caused enough trouble that we're now using ontape, and we're about to implement onbar with 7.2.1. Onarchive's problems include catalogue mismatches (which cause the log backups to fail), and it even caused informix to crash a few times when cataloguing the archive. We found that we had to re-initialize the catalogue so often that the benefits of onarchive were lost anyway. I'd advise you to wait for onbar. John Morton mortonj@interlog.com