CA Technologies R12.5 Manual De Usuario

 

 

CA ARCserve Backup is a comprehensive, distributed storage solution for 
applications, databases, distributed servers, and file systems. It provides 
backup and restore capabilities for databases, business-critical applications, 
and network clients. 

The CA ARCserve Backup Agent for IBM Informix provides backup and restore 
capabilities for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS). The types of data that 
can be backed up include both critical and non-critical dbspaces (primarily 
chunks, or specific regions of disk space); blobspaces (binary large object 
spaces); and logical logs (transaction records). 

This section contains the following topics: 

 (see page 9) 

 

The Agent for IBM Informix works with ON-Bar, which is the backup and 
recovery utility for IDS. The primary job of the agent is to issue requests for 
the Informix ON-Bar utility on behalf of the Informix Manager. Options set 
through the Backup Manager interface are translated into the ON-Bar 
command line options, to provide an integrated environment. You can also 
work from the ON-Bar command line to submit jobs directly to the Backup 
Manager. 

 

The agent connects CA ARCserve Backup and IDS by communicating between 
the two applications, enabling data to be passed back and forth. The agent 
resides on the same system as IDS. 

 

To backup a database, the CA ARCserve Backup Manager converts user entries 
into one or more requests, and sends the requests to the agent on the IDS 
system. The agent communicates this request to ON-Bar, which executes 
backup and restore requests for IDS. The agent retrieves the specified data 
objects from IDS and sends them to the Backup Manager, which copies the 
data to your storage media. 

 

You can manage the backup and restore operations better with the following 
options. 

 

 

Chapter 1: Introducing the Agent for IBM Informix  9