Re: Switching from SCO to Linux

Sven Eric escribis: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to switch our Informix 7.24 standard Engine database from SCO > Openserver to Linux. I got the informix system up and running in about > 20 minutes on the linux machine, built the sample database and was able > to use it (locally and remotely via ODBC), everything was dandy. But > when I tried to use our old database from the SCO system (I made a cpio > file of the entire ./sales.dbs/ directory, then copied that to the linux > system and extracted it) I got the following error in dbaccess while > trying to select the database > > 329: Database not found or no system permission. > 117: ISAM error: isam file format change detected.> > As far as I can tell all the permissions and ownerships are identical on > both systems... > > (usernames and groups match, the user-id and group-id numbers do vary > from the SCO system since I cannot recreate the entire userbase from SCO > to Linux) > > Hardware wise both systems are virtually identical (Pentium II's). > > Am I doing something fundamentally wrong here, is there a better way of > copying databases between systems? I don't know if is a better way, but a secure one: dbexport on SCO and then dbimport on linux. > > Many thanks in advance, > > Sven Eric, The Netherlands > > P.S. please also reply directly to my e-mail address since my news-feed > is thready (no pun intended) at best. Byte byte! -- Mario R. Canto mcanto@intec.unl.edu.ar mcanto@intec.arcride.edu.ar http://www.intec.unl.edu.ar/~mcanto