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 the Informix ON-bar utility and library
During a backup or restore, the Informix ON-Bar utility provides the interface to the databases and performs the actual extraction and insertion of data.
To start a database backup or restore, the database administrator runs a command called onbar. This command, which is part of the Informix ON-Bar utility, can be executed from the command line, from an ON-Bar script, or from an application such as NetBackup. An ON-Bar script includes the onbar command to be executed and defines the database objects to be backed up or restored.
During a backup or restore, the Informix ON-Bar utility controls the data streams going into or out of a database. To access the storage devices, this utility must be integrated with a media-management system such as the one provided by NetBackup and its Media Manager.
The onbar command is documented in the IBM Informix Backup and Restore Guide.
Instructions are available for how to find the supported Informix version level.
NetBackup for Informix has a special library that contains the functions necessary for the Informix ON-Bar utility to use NetBackup.