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