Re[2]: Onbar and Multiple Instances

You can do an imported restore from your production instance to your production copy with ON-Bar and ISM. It is called an imported restore and you do have to jump through hoops to get it done. The best thing to do is to read the Informix Storage Manager Admin Guide on page 5-10 and follow the instructions. You are required to have the production instance name and the copy of production instance name the same. And you have to copy over some IDS and ISM files to your target machine. Craig Lanford Mailto:craig.lanford@alltel.com >Your problems will not be with OnBar, they will be with ISM. >If I'm not mistaken, ISM does not allow you to copy from one machine to >.another. You CAN do it, if you rename your machine, but this doesn't sound >like what you want. MAYBE, you can tweak the production ISM catalog (after >copying it to your development machine) to change the name it wants, but I >haven't been there or done that. >Good Luck, >Doug >"Jay Aymond" <jaymond@communitycoffee.com> wrote in message >news:38ccf45d.229220171@news.intersurf.net... >> I have some questions regarding >>onbar. > >> We are using IDS 7.31 on Solaris 2.6 and I have just upgraded my >> development server from ontape to onbar. My production server >>is > still using ontape. >> >> We have two instanaces of Informix on the development machine ... >>one > for development and another that contains a full copy of our >> production data. Right now, only the development instance uses >>onbar. > The copy of production still uses ontape. >> >> >> My questions are: >> >> (1) If I convert my production server to onbar and the second >> instance of my development server to onbar, can I still do >>level-0 > restores from production to my copy of production? If >>so, is it >> pretty straight forward, or do I have to jump through >>hoops? > >> (2) Are there any issues with running two instances of Informix >>using > onbar? Can they share the same tape drives for logical log >>backups >> and level-0 backups? Do I have to create another ISM subdirectory, >>or > is that handled transparently? >> >> >> Thanks