Re: Onarchive

In article <350D9E85.732@eds.com>, Greg Moye <greg.moye@eds.com> writes >Do yourself two favors: > >1. Migrate to >= 7.23x or 7.3x soon. >2. Forget OnArchive, Informix has and it's all your worst nightmares. True, when did the Online Admin course at Informix UK they said that onarchive was done by an outside company and onbar is the Informix internal (i.e. done by them) replacement. Even the instructors thought onarchive was crap! >Use Ontape for smaller, simpler systems, onbar if you need parallel >backup or point in time recovery. > Agreed. ontape is basically everything. onbar is advanced. >As for recovering one database at a time, that could be a tough one, >I'll be interested to see the other responses you get. That's a bunch >of databases on one instance, may I ask why so many?? > One dbspace per database, but why so many databases? >Greg > >gfarrell@agris.com wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am new to Informxix 7.13 and have been reading >> up on Onarchive. Is it >> as horrible as I am being lead >> to believe? I am using "ontape -s" to do the >> archiving; which >> works well. The only issue will occur when I need to >> restore >> ONE database from the 80-90 that I have on each Informix instance. >> I >> do not have OnBan available. Should I wait for that?? >snip.... -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care