Application Backup

The Application Backup schedule enables user-controlled NetBackup operations from the client. These operations include those initiated from the client and those initiated by an automatic schedule on the master server. NetBackup uses the Application Backup schedule when the user starts a backup manually. Configure at least one Application Backup schedule for each database policy. The Default-Application-Backup schedule is configured automatically as an Application Backup schedule.

Automatic Full Backup

An Automatic Full Backup copies all blocks into the backup set. It skips only the data file blocks that have never been used. Note that a full backup is not the same as a whole database backup; full is an indicator that the backup is not incremental.

This type of backup corresponds to an Informix Level-0 backup, which is a baseline backup.

Automatic Incremental Backup

An Automatic Incremental Backup is a backup of only those blocks that have changed since the last Automatic Full (baseline) backup. This kind of backup takes less time and space than a full backup because the Automatic Incremental Backup contains only the changed data.

This type of backup corresponds to an Informix Level-1 backup.