Veritas NetBackup™ for Informix Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for Informix
- Installing NetBackup for Informix
- Planning the installation of NetBackup for Informix
- Verifying the operating system and platform compatibility
- NetBackup server and client requirements
- Informix server software requirements for NetBackup for Informix
- About the license for NetBackup for Informix
- Specifying the Informix home path
- Adding new Informix instances
- Configuring NetBackup for Informix
- About configuring NetBackup for Informix
- About configuring a backup policy for an Informix database
- About NetBackup for Informix scripts
- Configuring an additional bp.conf file
- About permissions for NetBackup for Informix log files
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- Configuring the Maximum jobs per client (NetBackup for Informix)
- Performing a manual backup
- Performing backups and restores of Informix
- About using NetBackup for Informix
- About Informix ON-Bar backup types
- Example Informix backup strategy
- Automatic backup policy for Informix
- Manual backup policy for Informix
- Using the onbar command to perform a user-directed backup
- About browsing Informix backups
- Restoring files to the original client
- Redirecting an Informix restore to a different client
- Example of procedure for restoring an Informix database
- Troubleshooting
- Verifying the NetBackup for Informix configuration
- Verifying NetBackup for Informix log files
- Enabling the debug logs manually (NetBackup for Informix)
- About the NetBackup for Informix log files
- About NetBackup server reports
- About Informix ON-Bar utility logs
- Setting the debug level (NetBackup for Informix)
- Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
- Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
- About deleting expired backups from the Informix backup database
- Delays in completion of backup jobs
- Appendix A. Register authorized locations
About configuring a backup policy for an Informix database
A backup policy for a database defines the backup criteria for a specific group of one or more clients.
These criteria include the following:
Storage unit and media to use
Policy attributes
Backup schedules
Clients to be backed up
The script files to run on the clients
To back up the database environment, define at least one Informix-ON-Bar policy with the appropriate schedules. A configuration can have a single policy that includes all clients, or there can be many policies, some of which include only one client.
In addition to the Informix-ON-Bar policy, back up the $INFORMIXDIR/etc files that are specified in the backup scripts. Define a Standard policy with a User Backup schedule type to back up these files.
To add and configure a policy, see the following topics: