#L2-748

Informix Dynamic Server Backup and Restore Strategies

Course Description

This course focuses on backup and recovery planning. Through a variety of exercises, you will define what recovery means for your business, identify constraints affecting recovery, and begin to develop a strategy for backup and recovery planning. During the course, you will explore alternative methods for backup and recovery and determine when each should be used. ON-Bar is the primary utility used in class and will be covered in detail along with the Informix Storage Manager (ISM). Other topics that will be addressed in this course include backup and restore validation, system monitoring, logical log backup, testing the restore strategy, and tuning restore time.

Your New Skills:

• Plan recovery goals
• Identify and select the proper recovery tools
• Explain the Informix backup and restore strategy
• Perform a system backup using the ON-Bar utility
• Configure ISM for use by ON-Bar
• Explain the importance of logical log backup
• Restore an Informix Dynamic Server database server using the ON- Bar Utility
• Backup additional system files
• Test the restore strategy
• Tune recovery objects to optimize restore time

Who Should Attend: Database and System Administrators

Prerequisites:

• L1-846 System Administration: Informix Dynamic Server (UNIX) or equivalent knowledge

Length: 3 days

Format: Lecture and hands-on exercises

Course Number: L2-748