Informix Database - Backed up by ADSM

Help, I need to backup an Informix database, using Tivoli/IBM ADSM I am not sure how to do this - either by using a flat file while system is offline or some connect agent, which I can not find! Any help would be appreciated.. E-mail: Jonathan@wootton.freeserve.co.uk Regards Jonathan Wootton

If Tivoli/ADSM is xBSA compliant then Informix's OnBar archive utility can use it as a storage manager to archive the Informix engine while it is online and active. Contact IBM and see if you can get the xBSA shared library that OnBar needs to perform the interaction. Art S. Kagel Jonathan Wootton wrote: > > Help, > > I need to backup an Informix database, using Tivoli/IBM ADSM > > I am not sure how to do this - either by using a flat file while system is > offline or some connect agent, which I can not find! > > Any help would be appreciated.. > > E-mail: Jonathan@wootton.freeserve.co.uk > > Regards > Jonathan Wootton

There are release notes concerning this from IBM for ADSM and from Informix for onbar. Connect the two together, and voila you will be set. As Art suggested, contact your IBM rep for the details. You have a small amount of set-up, but you need the release notes to show you the way. The onbar release notes are adequate for onbar, but you need also need the IBM notes to complete the task. The xBSA library should already be on your system, you need to extract one of the .o files out of it and create a link but after that the rest is easy. Tim Jonathan Wootton wrote: > > Help, > > I need to backup an Informix database, using Tivoli/IBM ADSM > > I am not sure how to do this - either by using a flat file while system is > offline or some connect agent, which I can not find! > > Any help would be appreciated.. > > E-mail: Jonathan@wootton.freeserve.co.uk > > Regards > Jonathan Wootton -- - -- --- Tim Schaefer ---- tschaefe@mindspring.com --- http://www.inxutil.com -- -

Jonathan Wootton wrote: > Help, > > I need to backup an Informix database, using Tivoli/IBM ADSM > > I am not sure how to do this - either by using a flat file while system is > offline or some connect agent, which I can not find! > > Any help would be appreciated.. > > E-mail: Jonathan@wootton.freeserve.co.uk > > Regards > Jonathan Wootton You can use the XBSA Library of ADSM Fileset Level State Description ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: /usr/lib/objrepos adsm.api.client.aix42 3.1.20.6 COMMITTED ADSM Client - Application Programming Interface and the onbar utility from Informix. Works fine for us. Markus Ochsner -------------------------------------------------------------------- /\\ Tel: +41 32 329 90 51 Markus Ochsner /--\\KROS AG Firma: +41 32 329 90 30 dipl. Inf. Ing. ETH/HTL unterer Quai 37 Fax: +41 32 329 90 35 CH-2502 Biel email: ochsner@akros.ch --------------------------------------------------------------------

Sorry guys, forgot to mention Informix is running on NT X/open API etc do not support NT Alegedly Markus Ochsner wrote in message <378ED31B.27FED7D3@akros.ch>... > >Jonathan Wootton wrote: > >> Help, >> >> I need to backup an Informix database, using Tivoli/IBM ADSM >> >> I am not sure how to do this - either by using a flat file while system is >> offline or some connect agent, which I can not find! >> >> Any help would be appreciated.. >> >> E-mail: Jonathan@wootton.freeserve.co.uk >> >> Regards >> Jonathan Wootton > >You can use the XBSA Library of ADSM > > Fileset Level State Description > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > >Path: /usr/lib/objrepos > adsm.api.client.aix42 3.1.20.6 COMMITTED ADSM Client - Application > Programming Interface > >and the onbar utility from Informix. > >Works fine for us. > >Markus Ochsner > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > /\\ Tel: +41 32 329 90 51 >Markus Ochsner /--\\KROS AG Firma: +41 32 329 90 30 >dipl. Inf. Ing. ETH/HTL unterer Quai 37 Fax: +41 32 329 90 35 > CH-2502 Biel email: ochsner@akros.ch >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >

Correct. You have to do a flat file backup - such as an offline export, or backing up (shudder) the NT container files. XBSA doesn't work on NT with ADSM -- we've been down that route. Jonathan Wootton wrote: > Sorry guys, forgot to mention Informix is running on NT > > X/open API etc do not support NT Alegedly > Markus Ochsner wrote in message <378ED31B.27FED7D3@akros.ch>... > > > >Jonathan Wootton wrote: > > > >> Help, > >> > >> I need to backup an Informix database, using Tivoli/IBM ADSM > >> > >> I am not sure how to do this - either by using a flat file while system > is > >> offline or some connect agent, which I can not find! > >> > >> Any help would be appreciated.. > >> > >> E-mail: Jonathan@wootton.freeserve.co.uk > >> > >> Regards > >> Jonathan Wootton > > > >You can use the XBSA Library of ADSM > > > > Fileset Level State Description > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > > > >Path: /usr/lib/objrepos > > adsm.api.client.aix42 3.1.20.6 COMMITTED ADSM Client - Application > > Programming Interface > > > >and the onbar utility from Informix. > > > >Works fine for us. > > > >Markus Ochsner > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > /\\ Tel: +41 32 329 90 51 > >Markus Ochsner /--\\KROS AG Firma: +41 32 329 90 30 > >dipl. Inf. Ing. ETH/HTL unterer Quai 37 Fax: +41 32 329 90 35 > > CH-2502 Biel email: ochsner@akros.ch > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >