RE: Data migration (2)

Posted in 2000

Parker, Jack — Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:13:40 -0500 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

>Shudder<. In the past I've done this sort of thing with a parallel unload to a named pipe and a parallel load to the new box from the same pipe. Let's see if I still have my notes on this procedure. ... I don't - hang on let me ask an expert. cheers j. > -----Original Message----- > From: Obnoxio The Clown [mailto:obnoxio@hotmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 5:12 AM > To: jimm@burton.com; informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Data migration (2) > > > 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? > > Why not set the two machines up and do remote inserts across > a network > connection? > > ______________________________________________________________ > _______________________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : > http://explorer.msn.com >