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Use these commands to perform operations from the command line.

These commands only restore data stored in the Informix instance. They do not restore any software or configuration information.

By default, infx does backup and restore with ontape to directories. This is controlled by setting the BARMANAGER parameter in config.ini.

For information about using onbar or other commands, see infx guide: 8. BAR manager

infx supports the following types of restore:

type	description
restore full	restore storage spaces and logical logs
restore physical	pause the restore before applying logical logs
restore logical	perform a logical log roll forward
restore endlogical	end the logical log roll forward
restore hot	hot copy from another instance
restore clone	copy remote instance using the Informix ifxclone utility
restore ext	perform external restore
restore warm	perform a warm restore of down spaces

You can define a pre or post command for each type of restore
These are automatically executed by the infx restore service
If the pre command fails (non 0 exit code), the restore command will not be executed
The post command is only executed if the restore command succeeds
Post commands should check the instance status, not all restores result in the instance being online
See sub-infx-ontape.ini for the full backup and restore command definitions. Copy the file to /infx/local/etc and make changes there

notes

for a complete backup of the host, you need to backup the informix & infx software, plus the configuration file information.
these backups write data to disk, you should also set up a backup of this data, such as to tape or another host with rsync
restores will not run unless the instance being restored is down, specify force=yes to force the instance done first
instances in recovery mode after a restore, specify online=yes to override and bring the instance online