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- From: dsimon@informix.com (Don Simon)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Backing up OE db files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.164626.18675@informix.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 16:46:26 GMT
- Article-I.D.: informix.1992Nov9.164626.18675
- References: <1992Nov6.140938.3566@infonode.ingr.com>
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- In article 3566@infonode.ingr.com, jjolly@jjolly.b24b.ingr.com (Jack G. Jolly) writes:
- >Is it necessary to back up the physical files associated with an
- >ONLINE db "outside of the environment"?
- >
- >Consider "raw partitions" as well.
- >
- >I always thought that backup of physical files was a necessity to
- >prevent against disk failure - that you would restore your old
- >files and apply the contents of saved transaction log files against
- >them to bring them up to date (at least that is how you're supposed
- >to do it with Oracle).
- >
- >Does the "Archive" utility in tbmonitor eliminate the need to make copies
- >of the physical files??
- >
- >JJ
- >-------------
- >
- > ^^^^^^^^^ Jack Jolly @ jjolly@jjolly.b24b.ingr.com
- > (| 0 - |)
- > | * | Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville AL
- > \_______/ AEC Project Management Support
-
-
- The entire purpose of the archive system is so that you don't have to make backing
- up your on-line data part of your regular backups. The on-line archiving system
- stores all database information needed to restore the database in the event of failure.
- You still need to backup your regular UNIX system, so that the INFORMIXDIR files
- (programs and configuration info) are saved. If you are using cooked files, and
- are properly archiving your on-line system (both data and logs), you can exclude
- the cooked files from your unix archive.
-
- Hope this clears things up some,
-
- don simon
- "I didn't do it.
- Nobody some me do it.
- You can't prove a thing."
-