Re: Vedr: Upgrade from Informix 7.14 to 7.3

--0__=Xy9V855xQrbXxM5VML9NdyqC9ZYLFgY5zi71KynrsL0HCLBWt0MRJwxV Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline I don't agree. We upgrade from version 5.03 to a flavor of 7 just by shutting the servers down, loading the new software on top of the old software, then bringing the servers back up. You have to wait while new table entries are made, etc. but you don't need to dbexport. Obviously, try it out in test first. If you don't plan on recompiling your code, you will need to load the new 4gl on top of the old 4gl and make sure you have both 4gl library entries under $INFORMIXDIR/lib/tools. Kate To: informix-list @ iiug.org cc: (bcc: Kate Tomchik/IS/SSC/THD) Subject: Vedr: Upgrade from Informix 7.14 to 7.3 --0__=Xy9V855xQrbXxM5VML9NdyqC9ZYLFgY5zi71KynrsL0HCLBWt0MRJwxV Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable No - you have to do an export /import. Since Informix version 7.2x where GLS were introduced there is only the= hard way with dbexport/dbimport. If you have enough space you can configure a Informix 7.3x server and = then convert one database at a time otherwise you have export all your databases, reconfigure the OnLine server and then do the import part. M= eans no 7*24 for quite a while. Good luck. Bjarne Alm. Brand Denmark vyao@dehavilland.ca - 24-02-99 18:22:54 Til: "'informix-list@iiug.org'" <informix-list@iiug.org> cc: (bcc: Bjarne Wilken Jensen/ABR/ALMBRAND) Vedr=F8rende: Upgrade from Informix 7.14 to 7.3 = --0__=Xy9V855xQrbXxM5VML9NdyqC9ZYLFgY5zi71KynrsL0HCLBWt0MRJwxV Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline We are now using 7.14 UD2 on HP-UX 10.20. This is a 24*7 production system. Whole database is larger than 10GB. If we upgrade to 7.3, is it possible to keep the data and upgrade DS itself? Cause I don't know how long will it take to dbexport and dbimport the whole database, we can not afford very long down time. Anyone has the experience or suggestion ? Thanks in advance, Vivian Yao vyao@dehavilland.ca --0__=Xy9V855xQrbXxM5VML9NdyqC9ZYLFgY5zi71KynrsL0HCLBWt0MRJwxV--