Re: Are your 7.1 backups/restores ok?

Petros Michalis writes: -> ->Hello, ->I'm desperately trying to use onarchive/ontape on informix online 7.1 ->but both utilities seem to have serious problems. In the beginning ->onarchive seemed to be the ideal utility but somehow the requests ->were never executed by onautovop for automatic backups scheduling... ->Informix support themselves admitted that onarchive has serious flaws. -> ->So I turned to ontape which seems to do the backups fine until the ->point where I actually had to restore something. Ontape took the ->ridiculous amount of 8 hours to restore a 1.5 Gb dbspace! That essentially As I said in a previous message, you might wait for OnLine 7.11.UD1 to solve onarchive problems. As for ontape, I am very happy with it. It restored my database just over a week ago - under 2 gigs in about 20 minutes and another 5 minutes or so for logical logs. Of course if you're going to have 100Gb, you might wait for a good rev of onarchive and then you can get great response (I've heard) doing parallel backups & restores. Regards, - Cathy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cathy Kipp e-mail: ckipp@vth1.vth.colostate.edu Phone: (970) 491-1294 Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital Fax: (970) 491-1205