on bar restore from machine A to machine B?
The poster asked whether an ON-Bar backup taken on one UNIX box (AIX 5.2, IDS 9.4 FC6) could be restored onto a second machine, assuming identical OS, IDS version and raw device names. Several respondents, including Art Kagel and DBAs using ON-Bar with TSM as the storage manager, confirmed it works and that they do such cross-machine restores routinely; one added that chunk names can be renamed during the restore if needed. The poster thanked them, so the question was answered affirmatively with no problems reported.
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Hi everyone. Is it possible to take an onbar backup tape from a UNIX machine A
and restore to unix machine B? If the unix OS's are the same, the raw device
names are the same, the IDS versions are the same, etc? I know simple
question. But I may need to do this with a 9.4 FC6 informix database on an AIX
5.2 unix machine. Thanks
Yes.
Art
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:08 PM, WILL LANDSTROM
<willlandstrom@yahoo.com>wrote:
> Hi everyone. Is it possible to take an onbar backup tape from a UNIX
> machine A
> and restore to unix machine B? If the unix OS's are the same, the raw
> device
> names are the same, the IDS versions are the same, etc? I know simple
> question. But I may need to do this with a 9.4 FC6 informix database on an
> AIX
> 5.2 unix machine. Thanks
>
>
>
>
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Oninit (www.oninit.com)
IIUG Board of Directors (art@iiug.org)
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yes this is possible ... I do this on a regular basis ... using onbar and
TSM as the storage manager ...
Peter Logan
Senior Database Administrator
Phone: 616/878-8309
From:
"WILL LANDSTROM" <willlandstrom@yahoo.com>
To:
ids@iiug.org
Date:
10/29/2008 11:09 PM
Subject:
on bar restore from machine A to machine B? [13836]
Hi everyone. Is it possible to take an onbar backup tape from a UNIX
machine A
and restore to unix machine B? If the unix OS's are the same, the raw
device
names are the same, the IDS versions are the same, etc? I know simple
question. But I may need to do this with a 9.4 FC6 informix database on an
AIX
5.2 unix machine. Thanks
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Forum Note: Use "Reply" to post a response in the discussion forum.
Yes, performed this several times using TSM and onbar. If needed you can
rename chunk names.
Regards,
Bart
Thanks Art
Peter-thanks