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 provide an overview of backup and restore concepts. They also provide information about planning for backup and restore operations.
These topics describe the planning for backup and restore, for example by planning your recovery strategy and backup system.
Before you use ON-Bar or ontape, plan your recovery goals.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
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.
The first step in planning a recovery strategy is to determine how much data loss, if any, is acceptable.
After you determine your recovery goals, create your recovery plan. The plan should include recovery goals for multiple levels of failure.
After you develop your recovery plan, create a backup plan based on how you use your data.
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.
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.
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.
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.