Veritas NetBackup™ for Informix Administrator's Guide
- 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
About policy attributes
With a few exceptions, NetBackup manages the policy attributes set for a database backup like a file system backup. Other policy attributes vary according to your specific backup strategy and system configuration.
Table: Policy attribute descriptions for NetBackup for Informix policies describes some of the policy attributes available for a NetBackup for Informix policy. For more information on policy attributes, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
Table: Policy attribute descriptions for NetBackup for Informix policies
Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Determines the types of clients that can be backed up with the policy. For Informix databases, select the policy type Informix-ON-Bar. |
| For NetBackup for Informix, the entry is ignored. However, it can be set using the environment variable INFXBSA_KEYWORD. |
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