Re: moving the rootdbs chunk

If you have configured the device name of root dbspace as a link to the real device - there are no problems. You have to use dd to copy the data from old volume to the new one and to point the link to the new device name. If not - you will have to create the new volume, dd the data to it and then rename the new volume to be the same as the old one (the device name must be the same). Best Regards, Octav On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 03:31:00PM -0800, wisse wrote: > > > What is the best way to move the rootdbs chunk. > > I want to move the rootdbs chunk, it has only one chunk. What is the > best, safest way to do this. Recreating the Inormix instance and > restoring the databases is not an option because that takes to long. > Dumping the volume (disk partition) of the chunk and restoring to > another volume and renaming the volumes is an option but I am a little > bit concerned about the risks like tape can't be read > > It should be nice to be able to create a second Informix instance and to > copy the dbspaces, ... information from the first Informix instance to > the second Informix instance. Testing the new instance and if oke > killing the first instance. > > > > Albert H. Wisse > > > > > --------------1DB0979E35178FEE396ADD96 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> > <html> > What is the best way to move the rootdbs chunk. > <p>I want to move the rootdbs chunk, it has only one chunk. What is the > best, safest way&nbsp; to do this. Recreating the Inormix instance and > restoring the databases is not an option because that takes to long. Dumping > the volume (disk partition) of the chunk and restoring to another volume&nbsp; > and renaming the volumes is an option but I am a little bit&nbsp; concerned > about the risks like tape can't be read > <p>It should be nice to be able to create a second Informix instance and > to copy the dbspaces, ... information from the first Informix instance > to the second Informix instance. Testing the new instance&nbsp; and if > oke killing the first instance. > <br>&nbsp; > <br>&nbsp; > <p>Albert H. Wisse > <br>&nbsp; > <p><i>&nbsp;</i></html> > > --------------1DB0979E35178FEE396ADD96-- > -- Octav Chiriac Phone: (373) 2 21 20 96 NetInfo S.R.L. Fax: (373) 2 21 36 59 Chisinau (373) 2 24 00 83 Moldova, Republic of mailto:com@netinfo-moldova.com