Recover Incremental Tape (Very Urgent)

Posted in 2004

Topics: Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion

Heraclio Cejas Corrales — Tue, 25 May 2004 11:23:20 -0400 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Hi all; My Question: Is it possible take an incremental tape with an utility program for recover only transactions from day specified (Friday). Where I can unload this Utility? Operating System is unix HP and Informix 7.31. Thanks in advance. Bye. sending to informix-list

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Fernando Nunes — Tue, 25 May 2004 17:00:27 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Heraclio Cejas Corrales wrote: > Hi all; > > My Question: Is it possible take an incremental tape with > an utility program for recover only transactions from day > specified (Friday). Where I can unload this Utility? > > Operating System is unix HP and Informix 7.31. > > > Thanks in advance. > > > Bye. > sending to informix-list NO. Backups contains binary images of disk pages, not transactions. Regards.

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Neil Truby — Tue, 25 May 2004 18:04:23 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Heraclio Cejas Corrales" <hcejas@mi.cl> wrote in message news:c8vpfe$ir$1@terabinaries.xmission.com... > > Hi all; > > My Question: Is it possible take an incremental tape with > an utility program for recover only transactions from day > specified (Friday). Where I can unload this Utility? > > Operating System is unix HP and Informix 7.31. By incremental tape I take you to mean an incremental backup. An incremental is done by dumping only the pages that have changed since the last full (or, Captain Pedantic, higher-level incremental) backup. So it doesn't contain transactions, and therefore it is unusable as a recovery medium without its parent.