RE: Using Onbar to do a system restore

You have to make onbar believe that it is restoring from a backup taken from the machine to which it is being restored. Depending on your storage manager this can be a difficult or impossible task. We use ADSM for our storage manager. It permits this type of restore. However, the procedure is not obvious. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Krenek To: informix-list@iiug.org Sent: 6/15/00 3:12 PM Subject: Using Onbar to do a system restore Hello all, Time for my daily stupid question. We are trying to do a system backup on one machine (onbar -b -w) which worked fine. Then we want to restore it onto another machine, both have the same version of informix. How does it know where to find the backup and how do we direct it to another location? Richard Krenek

In article <8ibv5t$4to$1@news.xmission.com>, Richard Krenek <rkrenek@ihs.com> wrote: > > You have to make onbar believe that it is restoring from a backup taken > from the machine to which it is being restored. Depending on your > storage manager this can be a difficult or impossible task. > > We use ADSM for our storage manager. It permits this type of restore. > However, the procedure is not obvious. Having done some searches, looks like this is exactly what I need. So, does anyone know how to "make onbar believe that it is restoring from a backup taken from the machine to which it is being restored"? Should I make believe onbar, ADSM or both? Can I get some opinions about the following scenario: 2 Unix boxes running the same version of Informix (7.31UC3), the first one called prodbox10 and the second one devbox11. Both running Solaris 2.6 and both are using ADSM storage manager. Is it possible to: 1. Create another instance on devbox11 with the same onconfig from prodbox10 with the same chunks names and sizes (btw is there any easy way - unix command, to determine a raw partition size?) 2. Bring the instance up and do onbar -r -t <time>. Remember I have backups (L0 and L1) of prodbox10 and devbox11. I need prodbox10 backup to go to devbox11. Will this work? What changes, if any, to ixbar should I do? What commands, if any, should I issue to ADSM (like dsmc -server=prodbox10 or similar)? Looks like Richard asked more or less the same question, but I couldn't find any straightforward answer. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Oliver > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Krenek > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Sent: 6/15/00 3:12 PM > Subject: Using Onbar to do a system restore > > Hello all, > Time for my daily stupid question. We are trying to do a system > backup on one machine (onbar -b -w) which worked fine. Then we want to > restore it onto another machine, both have the same version of > informix. How does it know where to find the backup and how do we > direct it to another location? > > Richard Krenek > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.