RE: relative pathnames for chunks
Thanks for all the responses. I called tech support and they say using
relative paths works, but is not officially supported.
What I am trying to do is what Mark describes below, create multiple copies
af an instance on a single machine. Tech support recommends I look into a
rename restore with onbar. Sounds like that will work for me.
Regards,
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Denham [SMTP:mkdenham@comcast.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 8:52 PM
> To: Bill Dare
> Cc: ilist
> Subject: Re: relative pathnames for chunks
>
> Used them for years and have always found them to be supported by tech
> support.
>
> In fact there have been a number of bugs raised over the years against
> tools
> such as onmonitor and onspaces for not supporting them correctly.
>
> They are extremely useful for enabling you to create multiple copies of an
> instance on a single machine. Many Peoplesoft customers do this to create
> all the test instances that you need during upgrades and for providing
> enough environments for developers.
>
> In most cases these instances will be image copies of the production
> system,
> restored from a backup or taken from a simple dd.
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Dare" <dareb@jevic.com>
> To: <informix-list@iiug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 15:19
> Subject: relative pathnames for chunks
>
>
> > Anyone know if it is OK to use a relative path to chunks. I have links
> to
> > my raw devices in $INFORMIXDIR/links. I would like to use a path
> relative
> > to $INFORMIXDIR for all my chunks. onspaces adds chunks that way OK and
> I
> > was able to store data on those chunks. But, from the manual:
> >
> > Specifying Names for Storage Spaces and Chunks
> > Chunk names follow the same rules as storage-space names. Specify an
> > explicit pathname for a storage space or chunk as follows:
> >
> > Would a relative path be explicit? Anybody ever done this?
> >
> > I figured I'd check here before blowing away the database and starting
> over
> > with all relative paths.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bill
> >
> > sending to informix-list
>
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