Re: OnLine 7.2 3rd Party Backup / Restore Utilities

At 10:34 AM 7/25/97 -0400, Art S. Kagel wrote: >postmaster@colburn.com wrote: >> >> I have been using ontape to backup my database for about a year. I only >> have 1 (about 2GB with 300 tables) and I do a full backup every night >> onto DAT. The problems I have: > >If you upgrade to 7.21+ you get the new backup/restore utility onbar. >Onbar has several advantages over ontape & onarchive: > >1) Can to single dbspace restore or archive. >2) Can restore 'up to the minute' if logs are available (ie user says > "Ooops I deleted all my rows at 11:15 can you restore them?") >3) Uses the new POSIX archive API so that 3rd party hardware interfaces >can be used. Many backup vendors are subscribing to this interface and >providing the shared libraries needed, ex: Legato Networker. These >ofter >add multiple device handling and tape libraries so that archives do not >wait for tape changes. The latter is the real benefit to OnBar. Both single dbspace backup/restore, as well as point-in-time recovery, are available inthe 7.2x versions of OnArchive. With OnArchive (when you get the thing working smoothly) you can use multiple devices. We are using OnArchive and perform level0's to 6 ea. 8mm tape drives, in parallel. OnBar allows you to use one of many the many storage management products (like Legato, ADSM, Alexandria, etc.), that support OnBar through the XBSA standard. Most of these products support multiple devices, robotic libs., etc. We are testing the Alex product with 4 drive DLT libs now. We anticipate a significant thoughput increase, as well as a significant decrease in support of out backup processes (OnArchive is a piece of .......) Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Jon C. Vemo "Life is like a dogsled team, if you ain't the jvemo@cyberspace.com lead dog the scenery never changes." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---