Re: Data migration

Bully for you. From: "John Smith" <js@ucsd.com> > >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. You forget what, eh? >"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 > > > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com