Difference betw. ONBAR / ONTAPE / Command Center tools?

[Eric R. Gavin]

As a new ODS DBA, I'm beginning to examine backing up this beast of burden.
But I see all these different tools! ONTAPE, ON-BAR, and the Command Center
Backup and Resore tools.

What's the difference between them? Why would I use one over the other?
Can anybody help me with this?

Eric Gavin

[David Williams]

In article <654o31$904$1...@arctic.discover.net>, "Eric R. Gavin"
<Eric_...@maf.org> writes

>As a new ODS DBA, I'm beginning to examine backing up this beast of burden.
>But I see all these different tools! ONTAPE, ON-BAR, and the Command Center
>Backup and Resore tools.
>

ontape was the "original" version and is best if you only want to
backup to 1 tape and have no Storage Manager installed. This was
written by a company outside of Informix for Informix.

onbar is the newest backup tool now written by Informix. It is
a kind of replacement which is what it should have been in the
first place. onbar works best with a Storage Manager. However
the Storage Manager must be XBSA compliant. onbar can support
tape jukeboxes (>1 tape), depends upon the Storage Manager.

The COmmand Centre Backup and Restore tools I have not seen but they
are a GUI type backup tool as opposed to ontape and onbar which are
UNIX character based tools.

>What's the difference between them? Why would I use one over the other?
>Can anybody help me with this?
>
>Eric Gavin
>
>

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David Williams