Backup and restore

The backup and restore guides contain information about backing up and restoring data and managing storage devices and media.

External resources

• Knowledge Collection: Informix® Backup and Restore Utilities (Support document)
  This document helps you find the available resources that are related to backing up and restoring data with Informix products.
• Using Optim™ with Informix Dynamic Server, Part 1: Configure Informix Dynamic Server to work together with Optim Solutions (IBM® developerWorks®)
  This tutorial describes how to use IBM Optim Solutions to segregate older data and maintain it in such a way that it is easily accessible for reporting or strategic decision making. In part 2 of this tutorial, follow scenarios to understand how you can use Optim to mask archived data and maintain privacy.
• Data archiving with Informix Dynamic Server table-level restore (IBM developerWorks)
  This article describes the most common options for archiving your HCL Informix data. It describes techniques to retrieve your data from a backup and store the data in an independent format, which is preserved against future changes in your environment.

Main resources