Re: Informix 7.2 does not support backups on Solaris 2.5!!!!!

I can understand why you have the complaint. I believe Informix backup utilities are the worst part of Online. There are many bugs I personnally reported and have never been resolved. However, I believe it is fair to say "most of the time" the backup utilities work. We have 10 Informix 7.2 running on Solaris 2.5 for a long time (a year?), and we have scheduled full backup and incremental backup every week. In the past, we did exprience many crisis such as hard disk crashes, SCSI errors, ... etc. We were able to recover from tapes almost every single time. I guess we are probably lucky. Chao CEDRO wrote: > > Does this subject sound like your worst nightmare? Well, it's reality for > me and probably for all Solaris users running Online 7.2. I try to back > up our database using On-Archive, and it acts like everything is fine. > When I try to restore of course, nothing works and I get an error message. > > I immediately called tech support and of course they had the bug logged in > their database: backing up doesn't work with System V drivers on Solaris. > It only works with System IV drivers. Of course Solaris 2.5 doesn't come > with System IV drivers, nor does it work with System IV drivers. Informix > is aware of the problem and have yet to make it a priority as far as I can > tell. They no longer return my phone calls. Well, a wake up call is > coming. > > So if you're running Solaris with System V drivers and you're > using Online 7.2, just be aware that those hundreds of tapes that you have > probably have nothing in them. Just hope you don't crash or anything > ludicrous like that. Of course, I don't know if this problem is limited > to Solaris 2.5 and Online 7.2. It could be a problem with ALL versions of > Solaris 2.x and Online 7x, so be sure to make sure you check it out > yourself. > > Robert > robert@cedro.com