Re: Replication on the same box ????

In article <3266976B.6779@geocities.com>, Manickam R Muthukumar <muthukumar@geocities.com> writes >Hi cid folks, > > I am having SUN 1000 with SUN OS, I am >wondering whether we can replicate an Informix >instance on the same box. I know that we have to >restore from level-0 archive to start the >replication which will try to write on to the same >chunks. My question is there any work around for >this. Any help is greatly appreciated. > >Cheers No, the pathnames to all chunks must be the same so yes you would overwrite the same chunks. Database replication is designed so you have a second machine as a backup to the first. Have you considered mirroring? This is where you define a 'primary' chunk (i.e. a normal chunk) and a 'mirror' chunk which is maintained as an EXACT copy of the #primary' chunk. Obviously the mirror chunk can be on a separate disk.... -- David Williams