Re: Network Appliance

We use it w/ IDS and Unixware 7 (<- no good) and NT. Forget about snapxyz, you can only use it with the instance in quiescent mode or down. Once you made snapxyz you can restore it but you can't restore logs, because you have to restore with ontape to be able to restore logs. Its really of no use at all with Informix. Also, snapcopy (which we use sometimes), keeps a kind of diff of your files, the more they change, the larger your snapcopy grows. When restoring your IDS instance from snapcopy you will need 2 x it's original size. Otherwise (performance, reliability, etc) we're happy with it. Been running for a few weeks now and plan to go live soon. Avoid Unixware like the plague in conjunction with NetApp though. On second thought, avoid Unixware like the plague for anything. "Christopher A. Franks" wrote: > > Anyone have any experience/comments on using Informix with Network Appliance > file servers? > > They have software called SnapMirror (replication) and SnapRestore (data > recovery) that keeps versions of disk pages. Has anyone used this with an > Informix DB? > > Christopher A. Franks > Senior Database Architect > RocketRadio > 700 S. Flower St. > Suite 3210 > Los Angeles, CA 90017 > (213) 489-3900 > www.rocketradio.com -- /* ----------------------------------------------------- * * Willem Roos wroos@shoprite.co.za * * roosj@mweb.co.za * * 0(+27)21 980 4941 * * 0(+27)21 919 0198 * * ----------------------------------------------------- */