Re: pull out drives

David Williams wrote: > > In article <5h913o$mpn@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Thuc Nguyen > <thucn@email.utcourts.gov> writes > >Hi everyone > > > >I am on HP 9000 series K200 with Online 7.11 We got new K460. > > > >I posted my message recently; BTW, network administrator just came in > >and wanted to know if he can take the drives from the old machine and > >put them in the new machne. I have never heard of that. All I know is to > >do archive/installation,restore or dbexport/installation/dbimport. > > > >Thanks in advance for your response > > > >thuc > > No..not that easily...just archive/restore or dbexport/dbimport. > > -- In theroy this is a _good_ idea. As an Implementation Pratice..*NOT* There are just too many caveats & gotchas to deal with... First the drives from your K200 would *_HAVE_* to be placed into the K420 at the SAME HW ADDRESS! Providing this is even possible... you need to keep _all_ the Informix stuff TBCONFIG, etc... et all. intact and consistant between the two systems. BUT even then nothin's gaurenteed. The K420 may want to do a mediainit, should you have to go into recovery (who me?) and restore the K200 environment... ...IT NO LONGER EXISTS!!!!! If you have everything under LVM control, your chances of recovery improve greatly, but _still_ Don't try this @ $HOME {;> DO the export/import ... archive/restore and you'll grow far less gray hairs! DtP