Re: Data migration

Posted in 2000

Topics: Migration, Import/Export & Data Conversion

Obnoxio The Clown — Fri, 01 Dec 2000 10:11:30 -0000 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

From: jimm@burton.com > >I am going to move a 300G+ Informix database from one system to another, >and due to several constraints (that I am not pleased about but must >deal with), I am thinking of doing a dd copy from one set of disks to >another. Has anyone ever done this before and survived? Don't even think about it. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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John Smith — Fri, 1 Dec 2000 15:30:24 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Why not? I (used to) have 1 raw partition of 1G on 2G scsi disk on solaris 2.5 when boot disk crashed. That was development environment so I didn't have last backup. I just dd that partition to file on another machine (other solaris, other DS, other disk...) and do some hacking (I forgot what) and I was able to save ALL of data. JS "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:907vfe$kda$1@news.xmission.com... > > From: jimm@burton.com > > > >I am going to move a 300G+ Informix database from one system to another, > >and due to several constraints (that I am not pleased about but must > >deal with), I am thinking of doing a dd copy from one set of disks to > >another. Has anyone ever done this before and survived? > > Don't even think about it. > > ____________________________________________________________________________ _________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com >