Backup & Restore

Backing up and restoring Informix with ontape and ON-Bar, from archive levels to logical-log backups. Threads cover planning a backup schedule, storage-manager problems, and what to do when a restore does not complete as expected.

1,956 threads, 1999–2019.

external restore another server with different chunk name

Getting the following error "Logbackup failed - function open tape device /informix/backup/logs/ failed code -1 errno 0" while perfrorming the ontape in 11.7

Using an external restore to rename chunks

Database per dbspace scheme

Dbspace restore

operating system limit was reached

how to do a full restore at HDR primary server

Initial phase of onbar backup painfully slow

How to failback in HDR?

IDS 11.7

bar_act.log field descriptions?

Re: Removing semaphore shared memory segment aborts other informixservers

Re: OK Next step: ISM imported restore of onbar -w using disk-based backups

Speeding HDR ontape archive-restore

Re: proper way to create rawdevices in Red Hat Enterprise 5.5

Removing semaphore shared memory segment aborts other informixservers

Re: OK Next step: ISM imported restore of onbar -w using disk-based backups

Re: Question regarding restore of a full (but not "Whole-system") onbar backup

OK Next step: ISM imported restore of onbar -w using disk-based backups

Number of dbspaces

Question regarding restore of a full (but not "Whole-system") onbar backup

Tip: ontape + gzip parallel compress

RE: TAPEDEV or -t STDIO?

ISM backups query

ontape -r is salvaging logs before restore on 11.50 when on 11.10 it didn't...

Big Performance differences between (almost) identical servers

How does onbar use tmpdbs during a backup?

How to delete logic log backuped before 30 days

version 11 in plae upgrade and HDR

Re: Restores

Restores

Re: Restores

Re: Dbspace recovery

Re: can't get ontape to work

Dbspace recovery

STDIO L0 restore plus logical log restore with ontape

Re: A teensy-weensy little oversight in the QA suite?

Re: Ontape platform compatability ?

Database Migration from DAS to SAN (VMAX)

Help Needed: Recover Data after failed HPL job

Restoring a dataspace

Onbar problem

Commvault Storage Manager

Encryption in ontape for version 11.5

Re: ontape of large database

onbar problem

ontape of large database

Re: ontape of large database

Re: Occasional onbar log backup hangs

How do you approach this problem?