Re: Upgrade Of Informix Databases

Posted in 1998

Art S. Kagel — Tue, 04 Aug 1998 16:44:55 -0400 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

machayach@okzim.gaia.co.zw wrote: > > I am having a problem in trying to upgrade my informix 5.08 database from > 8GIG to 12 GIG. I added a 4 gig drive and splitted it to 2 gigs logical > volumes and increased the number of chunks from 4 to 6. The problem surfaced > when i tried to do a backup and run tbcheck so i had to restore the old > structure. The backup just hangs and tbcheck gives an error. the sructure of > the database spaces at present moment is as folows: How did you increase the number of chunks? Did you use onspaces? Onmonitor? Tried to edit the disk structure? What? I've done this many times with no problems. Please post more detail. Art S. Kagel