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Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
Backup and Restore Guide
The
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.
Overview of backup and restore
These topics provide an overview of backup and restore concepts. They also provide information about planning for backup and restore operations.
Plan for backup and restore
These topics describe the planning for backup and restore, for example by planning your recovery strategy and backup system.
Plan a recovery strategy
Before you use
ON-Bar
or
ontape
, plan your recovery goals.
Administering
In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
System administration
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning
HCL Informix®
database servers.
Backup and Restore Guide
The
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.
Overview of backup and restore
These topics provide an overview of backup and restore concepts. They also provide information about planning for backup and restore operations.
Backup and restore concepts
HCL Informix®
provides two utilities for backing up and restoring database server data. Both utilities back up and restore storage spaces and logical logs. However, they support different features and it is important to know the differences. These topics explain basic backup and restore concepts for
Informix®
database servers and compares the
ON-Bar
and
ontape
utilities.
Plan for backup and restore
These topics describe the planning for backup and restore, for example by planning your recovery strategy and backup system.
Plan a recovery strategy
Before you use
ON-Bar
or
ontape
, plan your recovery goals.
Types of data loss
The first step in planning a recovery strategy is to determine how much data loss, if any, is acceptable.
Determine failure severity
After you determine your recovery goals, create your recovery plan. The plan should include recovery goals for multiple levels of failure.
Data use determines your backup schedule
After you develop your recovery plan, create a backup plan based on how you use your data.
Schedule backups
You recovery strategy should include a schedule of backups. Tailor your backup plan to the requirements of your system. The more often the data changes and the more important it is, the more frequently you need to back it up.
Security requirements for label-based access control
For label-based access control (LBAC), the person who runs
ON-Bar
or
ontape
does not require an exemption to security policies or an additional privilege to back up or restore data.
Plan a backup system for a production database server
To plan for adequate backup protection for your data, analyze your database server configuration and activity and the types of backup media available at your installation.
ON-Bar backup and restore system
ontape backup and restore system
Backup and restore a Remote Secondary Server(RSS)
Integrated Backup Encryption
These topics provide information about Integrated Backup Encryption.
Informix® Primary Storage Manager
The
Informix® Primary Storage Manager
manages storage for ON-Bar backup and restore operations, including parallel backups, that use file devices (disks).
archecker table level restore utility
Backup and restore configuration parameter reference
Cloud Backup
These topics provide information about storing and retrieving the backups directly to the ecosystem of selected cloud providers, namely Amazon S3 and Softlayer Object Storage.
Appendixes
Enterprise Replication
The describes the concepts of data replication using
Informix® Enterprise Replication
, including how to design your replication system, as well as administer and manage data replication throughout your enterprise.
Plan a recovery strategy
Before you use
ON-Bar
or
ontape
, plan your recovery goals.
Types of data loss
The first step in planning a recovery strategy is to determine how much data loss, if any, is acceptable.
Determine failure severity
After you determine your recovery goals, create your recovery plan. The plan should include recovery goals for multiple levels of failure.
Data use determines your backup schedule
After you develop your recovery plan, create a backup plan based on how you use your data.
Schedule backups
You recovery strategy should include a schedule of backups. Tailor your backup plan to the requirements of your system. The more often the data changes and the more important it is, the more frequently you need to back it up.
Security requirements for label-based access control
For label-based access control (LBAC), the person who runs
ON-Bar
or
ontape
does not require an exemption to security policies or an additional privilege to back up or restore data.
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