In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
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.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
These topics provide an overview of backup and restore concepts. They also provide information about planning for backup and restore operations.
ON-Bar consists of various components and it works with a storage manager to back up and restore data.
The topics in this section provide the information that you need to plan and to set up ON-Bar with a storage manager.
You can use the ON-Bar utility to back up and verify storage spaces (dbspaces, blobspaces, and sbspaces) and logical-log files.
You can use the ON-Bar utility to restore data that was backed up by the ON-Bar utility.
These topics describe the ON-Bar tables that are stored in the sysutils database.
ON-Bar prints informational, progress, warning, and error messages to the ON-Bar activity log file. ON-Bar return codes indicate the status of the command.
These topics provide information about Integrated Backup Encryption.
The Informix® Primary Storage Manager manages storage for ON-Bar backup and restore operations, including parallel backups, that use file devices (disks).
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.
The HCL® Informix® Enterprise Replication Guide 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.