On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Julio Porras wrote:
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>Now, in case of a disaster (that's the whole point of cloning your latest
>database full backup and saving it away from your site), what good is my
>clone tape for? How do I restore that data back into Informix now that my
>whole site is destroyed, I have no legato server, I have no Informix client?
>I need of course to recreate my hardware environment right? Ok, so now I
>have new legato box and a new Informix box with a clean legato and Informix
>installations, What do I need to create a networker environment in which I
>could restore my database? Do I need to clone and store away some other data
>besides my database backup? What data would that be? What general steps do I
>have to follow in order to restore my environment?

Your questions are good ones to ask, but they are not new. This is a good
opportunity to put in a plug for the book a fellow subscriber to this list
wrote. The book is "Unix Backup & Recovery" by W. Curtis Preston and
published by O'Reilly. This book is chock full of tips on how to develop a
realistic disaster recovery plan.

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