Re: Backup Remote Server

Shannon Sellers wrote: > > We have 16 remote sites with no IT personnel, and a local server. > > The local server is used to consolodate data and provide current data for > the remote servers. This is Informix DS 7.31 on NT and is backed up using > ontape. We have operators to moniter this server and make sure the backup > works. Our DBA uses ontape because it mimics the process they use on 2 UNIX > servers running Informix 7.31, which they are also responsable for. > > The remote servers servers run Informix WorkGroup server 7.30TC2 (I think on > the TC2). No backup has been put in place, and this needs to be done. I > would like to get some advice and ideas. What we need is backup software > that does not required much local intervention beyond changing tapes. > Ideally the back up would kick off somtime early in the morning and the > remote personnel could swap the tape after the backup is complete for the > next backup. What backup utility are you proposing? You can use OnTape with cron (or is it 'at' on NT?) for simple backups. I have several sites which do this AND the script changes tape using a tape stacker. The results are then emailed to the relevant people. NT DOES have email, doesn't it? :-) Cheers, -- Mark. +----------------------------------------------------------+-----------+ | Mark D. Stock mailto:mdstock@mydas.freeserve.co.uk |//////// /| | http://www.informix.com http://www.informixhandbook.com |///// / //| | http://www.iiug.org +-----------------------------------+//// / ///| | |This email will self-destruct in |/// / ////| | |10 sec. If you received this email |// / /////| | |in error, sorry about the mess. |/ ////////| +----------------------+-----------------------------------+-----------+