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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.
ontape backup and restore system
Restore with ontape
Types of physical restore

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.
  - ON-Bar backup and restore system
  - ontape backup and restore system
    - Configure ontape
      You configure the ontape utility by setting configuration parameters for backups of storage spaces and logical logs.
    - Back up with ontape
    - Restore with ontape
      - Types of physical restore
        Full-system restore
        Restores of dbspaces, blobspaces, and sbspaces
      - Cold, warm, or mixed restores
      - ontape utility syntax: Perform a restore
        Use the -r option to perform a full physical and logical restore of the database server data with ontape. Use the -D option to restore selected storage spaces. Use the -rename option to rename chunks during the restore.
      - Restore the whole system
        This section outlines the prerequisites and steps you need to complete to restore your entire database server with ontape.
      - Configuring continuous log restore with ontape
      - Rename chunks during a restore
      - Restore from standard input
        You can perform a restore from standard input, you must first have performed a backup to standard output.
      - Restore data to a remote server
        You can restore data to a remote server with the ontape utility.
      - Simultaneous backup and restore by using standard I/O
    - Perform an external backup and restore
      These topics discuss performing an external backup and recovering data by restoring it with the ontape utility.
  - 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 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.

Types of physical restore

If a failure causes the database server to go offline, you must restore all the database server data. This type of restore is a full-system restore. You can only restore data to the same version of HCL Informix®. When the failure did not cause the database server to go offline, you can restore only the storage spaces that failed. For illustrations of the restore types, see Warm, cold, and mixed restores.