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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for Informix Administrator's Guide
  3. Performing backups and restores of Informix
  4. Example Informix backup strategy

Example Informix backup strategy

The backup strategy in the following example is for a database that requires frequent backups to provide protection against disk failure.

This strategy is as follows:

  • Perform an Informix full backup (level 0) every Friday night.

    This backs up the selected dbspaces.

  • Perform an Informix incremental backup (level 1) each night.

  • Back up the $INFORMIXDIR/etc directory once a day.

    The sample scripts that NetBackup for Informix installs by default include parameters to back up the $INFORMIXDIR/etc directory after each full or each incremental backup.

  • Configure the Informix ALARMPROGRAM to start a logical-log backup as the logs fill.

    If you do not want to wait for log files to fill, you can set up a separate NetBackup policy and then schedule a full logical-log backup to occur as often as necessary. Have a good strategy for backing up logical-log files because they are needed for database recovery.

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