Are your 7.1 backups/restores ok?

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 means that restoring a 100Gb database would send the whole derivatives trading floor home for a few days! This is unacceptable! I noticed that informix would only read from tape (exabyte) once every 7-10 secs so I also considered shutting down informix to speedup the processing of dbspaces...well, can't be done as the manual says, you need informix up if you want to restore individual dbspaces. I'd apreciate it if you can tell me how you do backups with informix online 7.1 & if you're happy with your current strategy. At this point I'm even thinking of offloading tables and compressing them if all else fails.... Thank you very much, Petros -- Petros Michalis // email: Derivative Products Group \\\\ // michalis@dpg.rnb.com Republic National Bank of New York \\X/ michalis@panix.com