RE: Informix Archives with BCV

Hi Tim, in addition to what others have said: The informix commands are: onmode -c block, (split your BCV), onmode -c unblock We used to do this all the time for database copies to test systems (informix 9.4, sun solaris 2.9, onbar <-> netbackup). Block production db, split BCV, unblock production (that took about ...oh maybe 5 seconds max)... Then we'd disk copy the BCV onto the test system disks and start informix (a little more complex than that if you want the test system to be named differently,etc).... Actually most times we didn't bother with the informix block/unblock because it was going to a test system. Informix 99.999999% of the time came up fine after this (I call it a BCV rip). On the very rare occasion that it failed, we'd just sync the BCV & rip it again or we'd actually block/split/unblock. doing what we did (rip BCV without informix block/unblock) is unsupported so we only did it in cases where we didn't worry about having to call in the big guns. I think the onbar restore is done with a "-e" to indicate the backup had been external. We often took BCV splits for DB backups before project go-lives as they were much faster than waiting for the 4+ hour backup (of course in this case we did block/unblock informix). But we rarely restored the BCV backup back to source. Maybe once I rolled logs forward after a BCV restore, but I barely remember. We tested quite thoroughly before using BCVs with onbar, we had no problems. Informix Onbar & netbackup & EMC BCVs work very well together! So well that sometimes I actually hoped for a problem so I'd have something really fun to do :-) I say go for it, you will like it. Norma Jean ________________________________ From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Colin Dawson Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 6:09 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Informix Archives with BCV Does anyone have any 1st hand experience of using OnBar in conjunction with BCV. Have you run a restore? Did it work OK? Regards Colin There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't ________________________________ Get fish-slapping on Messenger! Play Now <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/101719805/direct/01/>; ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================