Neil Truby wrote:
> <Stefan.Gabriel@nylex.com.au> wrote in message
> news:1110163093.95298c73eea84eb6da460606e365eefb@t eranews...
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have a question for you regarding onbar and backups. I was under the
>>impression that onbar supported parallel backups/restores to/from multiple
>>drives. Does the XBSA agent provided by informix for 3rd party backup
>>vendors also support parallel backups/restores
>>
>>I have looked in the backup restore manual and there is no mention of not
>>supporting this but apparently the vendor has said that it is an inherent
>>limitation of informix. I wanted to be sure of my facts before replying.
>
>
> Yes, it does. It certainly works for HP Data Protector, formerly Omniback.
>
>
BAR_MAX_BACKUP

0 = "I don't care how many threads I kick off"
1 = "I don't want parallelism, but I want the limitations of 'I might as
well do an onbar -b -w"
2 or greater = "I will run up to n in parallel"

Set BAR_MAX_BACKUP to the number of *available* backup devices

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