Veritas NetBackup™ for Informix Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup (8.0)
  1. Introduction to NetBackup for Informix
    1.  
      Features of NetBackup for Informix
    2.  
      About NetBackup for Informix
    3.  
      About NetBackup for Informix terms
    4.  
      Example NetBackup for Informix configuration
    5.  
      About the Informix ON-bar utility and library
    6.  
      How NetBackup for Informix works
    7.  
      NetBackup documentation
  2. Installing NetBackup for Informix
    1.  
      Planning the installation of NetBackup for Informix
    2.  
      Verifying the operating system and platform compatibilityVerifying the operating system and platform compatibility for NetBackup for Informix
    3.  
      NetBackup server and client requirements for NetBackup for Informix
    4.  
      Informix server software requirements for NetBackup for Informix
    5.  
      About the license for NetBackup for Informix
    6.  
      Specifying the Informix home path
    7.  
      Adding new Informix instances
  3. Configuring NetBackup for Informix
    1.  
      About configuring NetBackup for Informix
    2. About configuring a backup policy for an Informix database
      1.  
        Adding a new NetBackup for Informix policy
      2.  
        About policy attributes for NetBackup for Informix
      3. About adding schedules to a NetBackup for Informix policy
        1.  
          Configuring an application backup schedule (NetBackup for Informix)
        2.  
          Example application backup schedule (NetBackup for Informix)
        3.  
          Configuring automatic backup schedules (NetBackup for Informix)
        4.  
          Example automatic backup schedule (NetBackup for Informix)
        5.  
          NetBackup for Informix backup types
        6.  
          About schedule properties (NetBackup for Informix)
      4.  
        Adding clients to a policy (NetBackup for Informix)
      5. About backup selections for an Informix client
        1.  
          About NetBackup for Informix scripts rules
        2.  
          Adding NetBackup for Informix scripts to the backup selections list
      6.  
        Configuring a Standard policy
    3. About NetBackup for Informix scripts
      1.  
        Modifying NetBackup for Informix scripts
      2.  
        About NetBackup for Informix environment variables
    4.  
      Configuring an additional bp.conf file
    5.  
      About permissions for NetBackup for Informix log files
    6.  
      Configuring the Maximum jobs per client (NetBackup for Informix)
    7.  
      Performing a manual backup (NetBackup for Informix)
  4. Performing backups and restores of Informix
    1.  
      About using NetBackup for Informix
    2.  
      About Informix ON-Bar backup types
    3.  
      Example Informix backup strategy
    4.  
      Automatic backup policy for Informix
    5.  
      Manual backup policy for Informix
    6.  
      Using the onbar command to perform a user-directed backup
    7.  
      About browsing Informix backups
    8.  
      Restoring files to the original client
    9.  
      Redirecting an Informix restore to a different client
    10.  
      Example of procedure for restoring an Informix database
  5. Troubleshooting
    1.  
      Verifying the NetBackup for Informix configuration
    2.  
      Verifying NetBackup for Informix log files
    3.  
      Enabling the debug logs manually (NetBackup for Informix)
    4. About the NetBackup for Informix log files
      1.  
        About the bphdb directory on the database client (NetBackup for Informix)
      2.  
        About the infxbsa directory on the database client (NetBackup for Informix)
    5.  
      About NetBackup server reports
    6.  
      About Informix ON-Bar utility logs
    7.  
      Setting the debug level (NetBackup for Informix)
    8.  
      Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
    9.  
      Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
    10. About deleting expired backups from the Informix backup database
      1.  
        Informix versions XPS 8.x and IDS 9.x
      2.  
        Informix version IDS 7.x
    11.  
      Delays in completion of backup jobs

Specifying the Informix home path

After you install NetBackup with a valid license for NetBackup for Informix, run this script on the computer where the Informix vendor software is installed. With this script, NetBackup can gather additional information about your Informix environment.

Complete this procedure if you licensed NetBackup for Informix for the first time.

To specify the Informix home path

  1. Change to the following directory:

    /usr/openv/netbackup/bin

  2. Run the following script:

    ./informix_config

  3. Supply the home path for the database instance.
  4. Verify the Informix ON-Bar configuration.

    This script creates the following entry in the Informix instance home path's etc/sm_versions file for each client.

    1|1.1.0|Veritas-NetBackup|1

    All Informix versions later than 7.31 UC4 dynamically read the appropriate information from the sm_versions file every time a backup or restore is performed. If you use a release at this level, you do not need to edit any files.

  5. If you use Informix version 7.31 UC4 and earlier, continue with the next step.
  6. (Conditional) Perform this step if you use Informix version 7.31 UC4 and earlier. Update the bar_version table in the sysutils database.

    Insert the following lines into the bar_version table in the sysutils database:

    bar_version   bsa_version  bar_sm              sm_version
1             1.1.0        Veritas-NetBackup   1
  7. Make sure $BAR_BSALIB_PATH is correctly linked to NetBackup's infxbsa.[so,sl,a].

  8. Set the BAR_RETRY configuration parameter to 5.

    The configuration parameter BAR_RETRY is used in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG file. This parameter specifies the number of times ON-Bar attempts to back up or restore the storage space or logical log if the first attempt fails. Informix recommends setting BAR_RETRY to 5.

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Verifying the NetBackup for Informix configuration