Re: Data Replication

Brian Hampson wrote: > > We are about to change hardware platforms for our UNIX (same OS, just > Intel, instead of 88K), and are considering letting Informix do the hard > work for us. Could we use DATA replication from the DB on one platform > to effectively CREATE the DB on the other platform, and hence avoid > having to UNLOAD and LOAD our ENTIRE DB? > > We are going from a big endian->little endian, nad hence our fears of > some byte flipping if we don't get it right. > > B. > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > |Brian P. Hampson Internet: brian@asl-labs.bc.ca | > |System Administrator, | > |Analytical Service Labs Fidonet : Brian Hampson 1:153/733 | > |Vancouver, BC | > |+604-253-4188 | > | Specialists in Environmental Chemistry | > | | > ------------------http://www.asl-labs.bc.ca/---------------------------- I don't see why not. From my experience, as long as you have the same On-line, and dbspaces setup it SHOULD work (I haven't tried it). The only thing I can think of is to make sure that you link the actual raw devices to names like /dev/informix1, because the actual device names are going to be different on each platform. Informix says no, they say you need the same machine, same OS, same Online, same everything and they won't support it if anything is different. I don't know which version of online you have but 7.10UC1 had problem with doing a dbimport while DR was up. I think it was fixed in 7.11UC1. hope this helps.