Does anyone know of a product which is Windows based and is able to backup Informix DB which are also running on Windows ?

Many thanks

Frank

HP's Omniback or Data Protector can do the job I am sure.

Thanks Pat

HP have said as much but we are also looking for possible alternatives and find someone who is actually doing it "in anger"

Doing it "in anger"? You mean, you want to acquire a software product that will give you alot of headaches? :)

Think it also depends on what your requirements are. If you want to be able to perform a true transparant database backup then I think your choice is more limited.

No , we have the headaches already ,thanks !

We are trying to find out what people with set ups similar to the one we are migrating to use

Hi Frank,

We've always used CA Arcserve for backing up our Windows servers and I know for a fact that there is an Informix agent.

http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/ProductOption.asp?ID=2750

As a matter of interest why can't you use Informix's built in back up tools or are you just looking at alternatives ?

Cheers
Neal

Thanks Neal

I had heard that Arcserve had agents but also heard that a company using Baan / Informix on NT "could not get them to work"

We were looking for someone who might be actually doing it successfully

To answer your other point , we would use onbar for both logs and backup , we were looking for a storage manager to do the housekeeping with our tape library

Rgrds

Frank

Originally posted by Frank Rogers
Thanks Neal

I had heard that Arcserve had agents but also heard that a company using Baan / Informix on NT "could not get them to work"


I guess I'm one of those guys who couldn't get it to work, I bought Arcserve 6.5 and the matching Informix Agent. (couple of years ago) I had to turn to a "cold" backup (all services stopped), that workes without a hitch..

Kind regards, Robert.