Steps to Take Before Making a Test Backup

Check the items in the following list to make sure that ON–Bar and your storage manager are set up correctly:

• The storage manager is installed and configured to manage specific storage devices.
• Make sure that the BAR_BSALIB_PATH configuration parameter specifies correctly the XBSA shared library or it is not set and the library is in the default location.
• Make sure that the BAR_BSALIB_PATH configuration parameter specifies correctly the XBSA shared library.
• The sm_versions file contains a row that identifies the version number of the storage-manager-specific XBSA shared library.
• The BAR_WORKER_MAX parameter is set to a number greater than 0 in the storage-manager-specific section of the ONCONFIG file.

After you verify that ON–Bar and your storage manager are set up correctly, run ON–Bar on your test database to make sure that you can back up and restore data. For more information, follow the instructions in Backing Up with ON-Bar.