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In This Introduction

About This Manual

Software Dependencies

Assumptions About Your Locale

Demonstration Database

New Features in ISM and Organizational Changes

Documentation Conventions

Typographical Conventions

Feature, Product, and Platform

Syntax Diagrams

Example Code Conventions

Additional Documentation

Installation Guides

Informix Error Messages

IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.0 and CSDK Version 2.90 Documentation Set

Compliance with Industry Standards

IBM Welcomes Your Comments

Informix Storage Manager

In This Chapter

ISM Server Tasks

How Do ON-Bar and ISM Fit Together?

What Happens During a Backup Operation?

What Happens During a Restore Operation?

Configuring ISM

Setting Up ISM on UNIX

Setting Up ISM on Windows

Setting Up ISM Volume Pool Names

Setting ISM Environment Variables and ONCONFIG Parameters

Updating the onbar Script

Uninstalling ISM

Using ISM with DNS Disabled

Migrating ISM 1.0 to ISM 2.2

Reverting from ISM 2.2 to ISM 1.0

Using ISM Administrative Privileges

Starting and Stopping ISM

Reviewing ISM Logs

Configuring ISM Server Properties

In This Chapter

Setting the Number of Parallel Data Streams

Setting Target Sessions for a New Device

Setting the Retention Period for All Data

Adding, Changing, or Deleting Administrative Users

Adding the First Administrative User to the ISM Server

Choosing Acceptable ISM User and Group Names

Deleting an Administrative User

Connecting to a Different ISM Server

Using ISM Configuration Parameters to Change the Volume Pool Name

Using ISM Environment Variables

Using ON-Bar Environment Variables with ISM

Managing Storage Devices

In This Chapter

Choosing and Configuring Storage Devices

Adding and Deleting Storage Devices

Enabling and Disabling a Storage Device

Changing Storage-Device Properties

Designating a Storage Device as Read-only

Using Tape Drives and Optical Disk Drives as Storage Devices

Using Filesystems as Storage Devices

Using Storage Devices for Logical-Log Backups

Reserving a Storage Device for Cloning

Automating Media Management for Tape and Optical Devices

Enabling Automatic Media Management

Selecting a Storage Volume

Relabeling Volumes Automatically

Using Unrecognizable Volumes

Managing Storage Volumes

In This Chapter

Managing the Data Life Cycle

How ISM Uses the Retention Period

How ISM Uses Volume Pools

Managing Storage Volumes

Labeling a Volume

Mounting a Volume

Choosing Volumes for Mounting

Unmounting Volumes

Finding a Volume Name

Relabeling a Volume

Overriding Automatic Media Management

Disabling a Storage Volume

Protecting a Storage Volume from Automatic Recycling

Deleting Volumes from the ISM Catalog

Cloning Storage Volumes and Save Sets

Tracking Cloned Data

Cloning Storage Volumes

Cloning Save Sets

Recovering Save Sets with ISM

In This Chapter

Restoring a Save Set with ON-Bar

Locating Volumes That Contain Partial Save Sets

Re-Creating the ISM Catalog Before You Use ON-Bar

Recovering Data from a Cloned Volume

Recovering Data After a Disaster

If You Have the ISM Server Bootstrap Printout

If You Do Not Have the ISM Server Bootstrap Printout

Creating and Backing Up the ISM Bootstrap

Transferring Data with the Imported Restore

Step 1: Backing Up the Source Database Server to ISM

Step 2: Porting ISM to Your Target Database Server

Step 3: Restoring Data from ISM to the Target Database

Appendix A. ISM Command-Line Utilities

Specifying the Start and End Times for the Log Report

Contents of the ism_chk.pl Report

Sample ism_chk.pl Verbose Output

Appendix B. Accessibility

Dotted Decimal Syntax Diagrams

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