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Backup and Restore GuideThese topics describe how to use the Informix® ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server 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.
ON-Bar backup and restore system
Customize and maintain ON-Bar
Expire and synchronize the backup catalogs
The onsmsync utilityUse the onsmsync utility to synchronize the sysutils database and emergency boot file with the storage manager catalog.
Expiring old backups on ISMInformix® Storage Manager (ISM) and certain third-party storage managers do not allow the onsmsync utility to delete backups from the storage manager.

Expiring old backups on ISM

Informix® Storage Manager (ISM) and certain third-party storage managers do not allow the onsmsync utility to delete backups from the storage manager.

About this task

You must manually expire or delete the old backups from the storage manager. Then, run onsmsync without any parameters.

To expire old backups on ISM:

Procedure

To manually expire the old backups from ISM, use the ism_config -retention #days command.
For more information, see the Informix Storage Manager Administrator's Guide.
Run onsmsync without any options.

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