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, and if you use disk library for storage, you can use disk caching of log backups.

Procedure

1. From the navigation pane, go to Protect > Databases.

   The database Overview page appears.

2. Go to the Instances tab.

3. 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 from instances overview page.

   The Backup options dialog box appears.

4. 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.

5. Click the Edit button associated with Retention option. You can select the following options:

   1. Infinitive

   2. Retention period: Enter a period as per requirement.

6. Under Tap media options section, you can perform the following actions:

   • When you move Start New Media toggle key to right, consider the following:

     • For an individual job the job will use a new media.

     • For a scheduled job at the backup set level, all jobs that belong to the schedule from that backup set will go to a new media.

     • For a schedule policy, all jobs that run from that schedule policy, will go to a new media.

   • When you move Mark media full on success toggle key to right, the system marks the media as full two minutes after a job completes. If another data protection job is queued or started within that two-minute period, the media will be used by that job. In addition, this option is useful when multiple data protection jobs are triggered simultaneously by a schedule or schedule policy, and the associated data needs to be written to the same media set.

7. Click Submit.

What to Do Next

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