"Davis Kwong" <dkwong@us.ibm.com> wrote in message news:bgs75m$grj$1@terabinaries.xmission.com...
> Hi, I'm not sure which manual is for 9.21, but here's a cut & paste of the
> 9.4 IBM Informix Backup and Restore Guide which talks about controlling
> parallel backup and restore using onbar.
>
> The BAR_MAX_BACKUP parameter specifies the maximum number of
> parallel processes that are allowed for each onbar command. Both UNIX and
> Windows support parallel backups. Although the database server default
> value for BAR_MAX_BACKUP is 4, the onconfig.std value is 0.

Thanks. I will try this.

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