Hi,

Looking for advice on a file system backup of our IFX servers.

We have noticed that system performance goes in the dumper when we are
performing a daily file system backup.

We are currently using cipo for this task.

Is there a better 3rd party tool that you folks have experience with, and,
that seems to mitigate this problem?

Any other suggestions or advice?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tam.

And the OS is ????? :-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tam O'Shanter [mailto:tam@oshanter.com]
> Posted At: 31 October 2006 12:31
> Posted To: comp.databases.informix
> Conversation: File System Backup....
> Subject: File System Backup....
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Looking for advice on a file system backup of our IFX servers.
>
> We have noticed that system performance goes in the dumper
> when we are performing a daily file system backup.
>
> We are currently using cipo for this task.
>
> Is there a better 3rd party tool that you folks have
> experience with, and, that seems to mitigate this problem?
>
> Any other suggestions or advice?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Tam.
>
>

Red Hat Linux AS3

Tam
"Paul Watson" <paul@oninit.com> wrote in message
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> And the OS is ????? :-)
>
> Paul Watson
> Tel: +44 1414161772
> Mob: +44 7818003457
> Web: www.oninit.com
>
> GO FURTHER with DB2
> GET THERE FASTER with Informix.
> Attend IDUG 2007 San Jose, North America
> May 6-10, 2006
> Visit http://www.iiug.org/conf for more information.
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tam O'Shanter [mailto:tam@oshanter.com]
>> Posted At: 31 October 2006 12:31
>> Posted To: comp.databases.informix
>> Conversation: File System Backup....
>> Subject: File System Backup....
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking for advice on a file system backup of our IFX servers.
>>
>> We have noticed that system performance goes in the dumper
>> when we are performing a daily file system backup.
>>
>> We are currently using cipo for this task.
>>
>> Is there a better 3rd party tool that you folks have
>> experience with, and, that seems to mitigate this problem?
>>
>> Any other suggestions or advice?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> Tam.
>>
>>
>

Tam O'Shanter said:
> Hi,
>
> Looking for advice on a file system backup of our IFX servers.
>
> We have noticed that system performance goes in the dumper when we are
> performing a daily file system backup.
>
> We are currently using cipo for this task.
>
> Is there a better 3rd party tool that you folks have experience with, and,
> that seems to mitigate this problem?
>
> Any other suggestions or advice?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.

tar? I'm a bit curious why performance should suck when running an OS
backup ... possibly your tape drive isn't setup correctly?

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is your filesystem on the same devices as your informix dbspaces?

what does the sar i/o activity report?

scottishpoet wrote:
> is your filesystem on the same devices as your informix dbspaces?
>
> what does the sar i/o activity report?

Additional questions:
- Are your Informix dbspaces in raw devices or cooked files? If cooked
files, in which type of filesystem are they places (ext2,
ext3,Reiser,...)?
- What are your parameters used for backup operations (block size,...).
I assume that you use cpio (you said cipo)?!

Darko Krstic

JUST TO MAKE SURE: you're not backing up Informix chunks within your file system, right?

Nope.
"Andreas Legner" <andreas.legner@de.ibm.com> wrote in message
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> JUST TO MAKE SURE: you're not backing up Informix chunks within your file
> system, right?