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Backup and Restore GuideThe Informix® Backup and Restore Guide describes how to use the Informix® ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server data. These utilities enable you to recover your databases after data is lost or becomes corrupted due to hardware or software failure or accident.
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Perform an external backup and restoreThese topics discuss performing an external backup and recovering data by restoring it with the ontape utility.
Data that is restored in an external restore
Performing a cold external restore
Examples of external restore commands

Examples of external restore commands

The following table contains an example of external restore commands.


External restore command	Action	Comments
ontape -p -e ontape -l	Physical external restore and logical restore	The system restores the logical logs from the oldest external backup.
ontape -p -e -rename -f	External cold restore with renamed chunks

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