CCMS for Scheduling Archives and Backups (ON-Bar and ON-Archive)

CCMS for Scheduling Archives and Backups (ON-Bar and ON-Archive)

The DBA Planning Calendar in the Computing Center Management System (CCMS) of the R/3 System lets you schedule the following for the Informix database:

Database backups ( ON-Bar ) or archives ( ON-Archive )

Refer to Archiving or Backing Up the Database in the DBA Planning Calendar (Informix).

Logical-log backups

Refer to Backing Up the Logical Log in the DBA Planning Calendar (Informix).

The advantages of the DBA Planning Calendar are:

You have a single point from which to coordinate and supervise database backups, archives, and logical-log backups.

You do not need to enter ON-Bar or ON-Archive commands, since CCMS handles these for you. Therefore, there is less chance of error.

You can see a history of database backups, archives, or logical-log backups, showing past results.

You can see how full the logical log is at any time.

You can automatically see which volumes are needed for a future database backup, archive, or logical-log backup.

With ON-Archive you can use an automatic logical-log backup from the DBA Planning Calendar. The backup is triggered when the fill-level of the logical log reaches a certain percentage. You can specify the percentage, for example, 50%. Refer to Backing Up the Logical Log (Automatic) in the DBA Planning Calendar (Informix).