Re: Setting up copy on y2k test machine

In article <7f8c3p$dg8$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, Neil Truby <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> writes >Well, chunks actually. Oh. No hope then as the Y2K machine has fewer larger disks (that's the nature of progress) so whilst I could (and will) build dbspaces of the same name & size no way can the chunks in them be the same. Back to dbexport/dbimport I think .... > >Neil > >Surfer! wrote in message ... >>In article <7elpt1$isv$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, Neil Truby >><ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> writes >>>Provided you set up your test Informix server with exactly the same path >>>names as those of the live, >> >>Presumably meaning for the dbspaces. This may be possible! >> >> >>> you can use a level 0 archive and restore. This >>>could, depending upon the size of your database server, save you a lot of >>>time. >>> >>>Neil >>>Surfer! wrote in message <3V38HHAAxlD3EwKW@nevis-view.demon.co.uk>... >>>> >>>>I will be setting up a copy of an Online database & programs for y2k >>>>testing. My thoughts on how to do this are to establish an Online >>>>instance on that machine, and set up the dbspaces needed as per the >>>>current database. Then we dbexport the live & dbimport into the test. >>>>Any better ideas out there - for example is there something we can do >>>>with a level 0 archive? They do one of those every day. >>>> > Surfer! URL: http://www.nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk Email: surfer@nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk Hopeful anti-spam: alter double 'w' to single 'w' to view site & send Email.