Specifying the Informix home path
After you install NetBackup with a valid license for NetBackup for Informix, run this script on the computer where the Informix vendor software is installed. With this script, NetBackup can gather additional information about your Informix environment.
Complete this procedure if you licensed NetBackup for Informix for the first time.
To specify the Informix home path
- Change to the following directory:
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin
- Run the following script:
./informix_config
- Supply the home path for the database instance.
- Verify the Informix ON-Bar configuration.
This script creates the following entry in the Informix instance home path's etc/sm_versions file for each client.
1|1.1.0|Veritas-NetBackup|1
- Make sure $BAR_BSALIB_PATH is correctly linked to NetBackup's infxbsa.[so,sl,a].
- Set the BAR_RETRY configuration parameter to 5.
The configuration parameter BAR_RETRY is used in the $INFORMIXDIR/etc/$ONCONFIG file. This parameter specifies the number of times ON-Bar attempts to back up or restore the storage space or logical log if the first attempt fails. Informix recommends setting BAR_RETRY to 5.
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