Re: Data migration

In article <90gone$emr$1@news.xmission.com>, "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > From: William Rice <ricew@operamail.com> > > > >In article <908tbm$st4$1@news.xmission.com>, > > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > From: "John Smith" <js@ucsd.com> > > > > > > > >Why not? > > > > > > "Mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!" > > > > > > ...is what Tech Support will say if anything goes wrong and you call > >them > > > up, is about the best reason I can think of. > > > >Why would they laugh? Using dd seems to be a perfectly legitimate way > >to move the data if it is done competently. > > Mmmm...sure. I think the key is "if it is done competently". Which is > outside Informix's control. > > >If I have a set of disks set up so I can swing them over to another > >machine and bring up the instance would they laugh then? How is this > >different? > > > >I can understand you saying whether or not you are competent enough to > >use dd is not Informix Tech support's responsibility, and I will agree. > > But as long as your media is good and you set up your other server > >properly, dd will work fine and in some situations might even be > >appropriate. > > Well, I spend my life with customers for whom "supportability" is mandatory. > If you don't care, you can do whatever you like. > ________________________________________________________________________ _____________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > Supportability is mandatory. If dd doesnt work, I will go to the O/S vendor. If I am not competent enough to use dd, then it is my own problem. If I using a hot swappable disk array, and I end up getting an I/O error when swapping out the drives, I do not expect informix to support that either. It is transparent to informix, so why involve them? Doesn't mean I won't let drives be hot swapped on my system, or that swapping the drives hot is unsupported. Will Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.

In article <90gs1r$fe5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, William Rice <ricew@operamail.com> writes >In article <90gone$emr$1@news.xmission.com>, > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> wrote: >Supportability is mandatory. If dd doesnt work, I will go to the O/S >vendor. If I am not competent enough to use dd, then it is my own >problem. > Some customer will say it is Informix's problem and that Informix does not work! >If I using a hot swappable disk array, and I end up getting an I/O error >when swapping out the drives, I do not expect informix to support that >either. It is transparent to informix, so why involve them? Doesn't The error message comes from informix so users assume Informix is at fault. >mean I won't let drives be hot swapped on my system, or that swapping >the drives hot is unsupported. > >Will > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Before you buy. -- David Williams