In addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
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.
These topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL Informix® database servers.
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.
Informix® Enterprise Replication generates and manages multiple copies of data at one or more sites, which allows an enterprise to share corporate data throughout its organization.
Before you set up your replication system, plan how to include Enterprise Replication into your database server environment, design your database schema by following Enterprise Replication requirements, and then design your replication system between database servers.
After you design your replication system, you define it and start replication.
You use the cdr utility to configure and control Enterprise Replication from the command line on your UNIX™ or Windows™ operating system.
You can use configuration parameters and environment variables to configure the behavior of Enterprise Replication.
Grid routines are used to create and maintain the grid and to administer servers in the grid by propagating commands from a source server to all other servers in the grid.
Enterprise Replication routines used to control if a replicated transaction is recaptured.
You can monitor and debug Enterprise Replication activity using onstat -g commands.
These tables in the syscdr database contain progress information about consistency checking and synchronization operations.
The system-monitoring interface (SMI) tables in the sysmaster database provide information about the state of the database server. Enterprise Replication uses the following SMI tables.
This appendix contains simple examples of replication using the command-line utility (CLU).
Data sync warning and error messages describe problems with replicated transactions.