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Veritas NetBackup™ for Informix Administrator's Guide
Last Published:
2018-09-19
Product(s):
NetBackup (8.1.2)
- Introduction to NetBackup for Informix
- Installing NetBackup for Informix
- Configuring NetBackup for Informix
- About configuring NetBackup for Informix
- About configuring a backup policy for Informix
- Adding a new NetBackup for Informix policy
- About policy attributes
- Configuring an application backup schedule
- Configuring automatic backup schedules
- About schedule properties
- Adding clients to a policy
- Adding NetBackup for Informix scripts to the backup selections list
- Rules for NetBackup for Informix scripts
- Configuring a Standard policy for backup of the $INFORMIXDIR/etc files
- About NetBackup for Informix scripts
- Configuring an additional bp.conf file
- About permissions for NetBackup for Informix log files
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- Configuring the Maximum jobs per client
- Performing a manual backup
- Performing backups and restores of Informix
- About using NetBackup for Informix
- About Informix ON-Bar backup types
- Example Informix backup strategy
- Automatic backup policy for Informix
- Manual backup policy for Informix
- Using the onbar command to perform a user-directed backup
- About browsing Informix backups
- Restoring files to the original client
- Redirecting an Informix restore to a different client
- Example restore of an Informix database
- Troubleshooting
- Verifying the NetBackup for Informix configuration
- Verifying NetBackup for Informix log files
- Enabling the debug logs manually
- About the NetBackup for Informix log files
- About NetBackup server reports
- Setting the debug level
- Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
- Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
- Deleting expired backups from the Informix backup database
- Delays in completion of backup jobs
- Appendix A. Register authorized locations
Adding a new NetBackup for Informix policy
This topic describes how to add a new backup policy for a database.
To add a new NetBackup for Informix policy
- Log on to the master server as administrator (Windows) or root (UNIX).
- Start the NetBackup Administration Console.
- If your site has more than one master server, choose the one on which you want to add the policy.
- In the NetBackup Administration Console, select NetBackup Management > Policies. Then select Actions > New > Policy.
- In the Add a New Policy dialog box, in the Policy name box, type a unique name for the new policy.
- Click OK.
- In the Add New Policy dialog box, in the Policy type list, select Informix-ON-Bar.
The Informix-ON-Bar policy type does not appear in the drop-down list unless your master server has a license for the database agent.
- Complete the entries on the Attributes tab.
Add other policy information as follows:
Add schedules.
Add clients.
Add scripts to the backup selections list.
- When you have added all the schedules, clients, and backup selections you need, click OK.