backup software for Informix

[Larry D Sorensen]

How large is the database you are wanting to back up?


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:43:52 +1300 "Steven Jones"
<Steven.Jones at vuw.ac.nz> writes:
> Legato is good (but you need the disk staging add-on), but it costs, 
> my
> favourite though is Tivoli that backs up to disk by default, then
> archives to tape, it costs as well, I have not used the server on 
> Linux
> but Im told its good. 
> 
> There is no real OSS backup software I am aware of. Try
> www.freshmeat.net but I don't think you are going to be in luck. If 
> you
> could get Informix to dump itself as a file to a harddrive, (which I
> thought it could?) then Amanda is a good network backup tool, though 
> nfs
> mounts and tar rock for me.
> 
> Also there is a hot and cold option, ie will the backup be done 
> while
> the DB is on line (hot), or do you offline (cold) the db while the
> backup is done. Hot backup costs more.....
> 
> Regards
> 
> Thing
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gentian Hila [mailto:genti.tech at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, 10 March 2005 8:37 a.m.
> To: redhat-list at redhat.com
> Subject: backup software for Informix
> 
> Does anybody know any good software, free or for sale that runs on 
> RedHat (AS or ES) that backups an Informix DB to a Hard Drive, able 
> to
> backup open files and able to compress the data ?
> 
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> Gentian
> 
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