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Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 Fundamentals Exam 555 certification preparation, Part 8: Backup and restore

Amit D. Vashishtha (vashisht@us.ibm.com), Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Amit Vashishtha is a software engineer working in IBM's Informix Dynamic Server engineering team for the past several years. His experience includes supporting backup-and-restore, replication, and other Informix database server technologies.

Qian Tang (tangqian@cn.ibm.com), Informix Technical Support Engineer, IBM

Qian Tang is an Informix support engineer on the Informix China Support Team. His experience includes IDS troubleshooting, backup and restore, and more.

Summary: This tutorial is the eighth in a series of nine tutorials designed to help you become familiar with all the different aspects of IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) and help you get ready for the IDS Fundamentals certification exam. In this part, which corresponds with Part 8 of the exam, learn about essential Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 database backup and restore concepts, and about ON-Bar and ontape utilities to back up and restore database server data. Learn also about table-level restore with archecker utility.

Note: The contents of this article were updated to include a new section on performing an external backup and restore of database server data.

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Date: 11 Mar 2010 (Published 24 Sep 2009)
Level: Introductory
PDF: A4 and Letter (77 KB | 25 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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Before you start

About this series

This complimentary series of nine tutorials has been developed to help you prepare for the IBM Informix Dynamic Server 11.50 Fundamentals certification exam (555). This certification exam will test your knowledge of entry-level administration of IDS 11.50, including basic SQL (Structured Query Language), how to install IDS 11.50, how to create databases and database objects, security, transaction isolation, backup and recovery procedures, and data replication technologies and purposes. These tutorials provide a solid base for each section of the exam. However, you should not rely on these tutorials as your only preparation for the exam.

About this tutorial

In this tutorial, learn about backup and restore concepts and processes, and about utilities to back up and restore database server data. The material provided here primarily covers the backup and restore objectives of the exam.

Objectives

After completing this tutorial, you should be able to gain a basic understanding of:

Essential backup and restore concepts
Configure ON-Bar for the storage manager
Back up database server data with ON-Bar
Restore database server data with ON-Bar
Set up configuration parameters for ontape
Back up database server data with ontape
Restore database server data with ontape
Table-level restore with archecker

Prerequisites

This tutorial is written for up-and-coming database administrators (DBAs). Basic IDS concepts knowledge is needed.

System requirements

To complete this tutorial, you do not need a copy of IDS. However, if you have one available to use, you will definitely get more out of the tutorial. If you don't have a copy already, you can download a free trial version (see Resources).

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