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Function documentation Recovery Report with SAPDBA  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

You can use SAPDBA for Informix to create a report that provides essential information if you need to recover your database after failure with data loss. Recovery means restoring database data that you have previously stored in archives and backups. With the recovery report, you can more quickly and easily restore your database.

Once correctly installed, SAPDBA automatically generates an up-to-date report after every archive and logical-log backup. You can only use this procedure with ON-Archive , as the recovery reports are not available for ontape or ON-Bar .

Note

The information given here applies if you are using an Informix version later than 6.0.

For more information if you are using Informix version 6.0, see Creation of Recovery Report with SAPDBA (Informix 6.0).

Integration

The recovery report is fully integrated in SAPDBA. You can use this functionality for databases running on UNIX and NT operating system platforms.

Prerequisites

Activities

  1. You prepare for the recovery report (you do this once only).

    2. SAPDBA then creates the recovery report automatically after every archive and logical-log backup.

  2. You view the recovery report if you need to perform a restore (that is, in the event of database failure with data loss).

 

See also:

Informix documentation