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Status Future consideration
Workspace Informix
Components Informix Server
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 5, 2022

RELATED IDEAS

Improve L1 backup usability

We would like to use incremental backups with 'onbar'. However this is difficult because we use storagepools and chunks can be added at any time. Once a chunk has been added this forces a L0 backup of at least the dbspace concerned and the root dbspace.

We call a whole database backup and this will fail if it is an incremental and a chunk has been added to any dbspace since the last L0. We do not want to write our own script to manage backups at dbspace level and handle any errors.

'onbar' uses a storage manager and it should be possible to back up different dbspaces at different levels at the same time.

We would like either the restriction around adding a chunk forcing a L0 removed or an automatic process for 'upgrading' an individual dbspace's backup (plus root dbspace) to a L0 if we call a whole backup at L1 or L2. An informational message could be written to the message log when this occurs.

We would only expect this to work with 'onbar' and not 'ontape'.

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