backup Informix DB

[Jon Shorie]

On Wednesday 09 March 2005 03:38 pm, Gentian Hila wrote:
> I know that this might not be the right list to ask this question but
> I though maybe any of you guys could help me.
>
> Does anybody know any good software, free or for sale that runs on
> RedHat (AS or ES) that backups an Informix DB to a Hard Drive, able to
> backup open files and able to compress the data ?
>
> Thank you so much.
>
> Gentian

We used to run informix here.  We have since migrated to mysql.  We just 
created perl scripts to backup our informix databases to a hard drive and 
then compress them using gzip.

If you would like some sample code, please email me off list.

Jon Shorie
Systems Administrator