Backing Up an Informix Instance

You can perform a full or incremental backup of an Informix instance on demand.

If you want to perform log backups at a greater frequency, you can use disk caching of log backups. For more information, see Serverless Log backup.

Note

Serverless log backup is not supported when BACKUP_FILTER is configured in the ONCONFIG file and Informix-side compression is enabled.

Procedure

From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Protect > Databases.

The database Overview page appears.
Go to the Instances tab.
In the row for the database instance to backup, click the action button , and then click Back up.

Alternatively, click a instance and select the Backup option on the instances overview page.

The Backup options dialog box appears.
For Backup level, select the type of backup that you want to perform:
- For a full backup, select Full.
- For an incremental backup, select Incremental.
Click Submit.

To view the application logs of the jobs, see Viewing the Application Logs.