Hi Josef,

I just spoke with our informix admin, who was in the surroundings as I
received your mail, and he assured me there would be no problem doing
this : both programs have their own way to check when to initiate
backups, and no one will "steal" the other logs ! 
Hope this helped !
Cheers.

Arnaud Brion

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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Jozef Zatko
Sent: Wednesday, 18 February, 2004 9:57
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Using more than one utility to backup Informix


Hello guys,
I have one quick (hope easy) question about backing up Informix
databases. Is it safe to use two different backup tools independently to
backup Informix data? I have Informix server, which was backed up using
Ontape. Recently we implemented TDP for Informix and started to use
onbar. But Informix admin still wants (at least for some time ) to use
also Ontape. I am not sure how these backup utilities manage Informix
logs. Isn't it possible that Ontape during its backup will backup also
some logs which will not then be backed up by onbar (will be marked as
archived)? Is it possible that later restore using onbar will not be
done correctly because of this? My version of Informix is 7.31UC3


Thanks


Ing. Jozef Zatko
Login a.s.
Dlha 2, Stupava
tel.: (421) (2) 60252618