Re: Onbar and Storage Manager Backup to different server mpossible?

Hi, if you are using ISM (IBM Informix Storage Manager), then you have to use a procedure called "imported restore" to restore a backup on a different machine. This is mainly because the hostname is different, as you have already noticed. The "imported restore" procedure is described in the manual "IBM Informix Storage Manager Administrator?s Guide", chapter 5, section "Transferring Data with the Imported Restore". All this is due to the fact that ISM is a limited "facility", as Jonathan Leffler already has noted. The limitation making this procedure necessary is that ISM cannot do remote operations. You can get yourself a commercial version of Legato Networker which does not have such limitations and does not need a complicated "imported restore" procedure. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management owner-informix-list@iiug.org wrote on 15.06.2005 20:46:19: > Hi guys. > We have 2 IBM P570 servers, one production one as DR. Both machine run > IDS 9.4.FC6 and are exactly the same EXCEPT for the hostname. > > Policy of the datacenter here we have the production server makes and > the fact that the program running on it doesn't usetransaction logging > makes it impossible to use HDR. Neither can we use mirror because the > DR isn't physically in the same building and the return time is > 30minutes. This is a 24/7 system. > > So we use the Storage manager and Onbar. All is setup by the book > (Onbar and Storage manager manual). The problem is that the DR onbar > doesn't allow the backup to be loaded into the instance because the > administrator on the DRmachine isn't known on the production machine > (not in the remote access list). > > We have tried, and tried, and tried. We can not get beyond this error. > it seems to be directly connected to the difference in the hostname, > but according to the manuals it should. > > Anyone any idea? > Art Kagel, Jonathan Lefflermaybe? i'm stomped. IBM tells me 'hmmm, it > may not be possible' which frankly isses me off mightily. > > Robert A. Reissaus > Risdi (Amsterdam, Brussel, Zurich, Chicago) > r.a.reissaus@risdi.com sending to informix-list