Re: ontape question

Neil Truby wrote: > You can't do it. > Informix requires that, during a restore, chunks of exactly the same size > AND NAME are available. > By definiton you can't set up two identical unique path names for your > chunks. > Try onunload/onload instead. > > Neil Truby > Londis Holdings > London, UK > > robert baskett wrote in message <6tprc5$gqf$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > >question on how to do the following (dont have docs with me): > > > >two instances on the same machine, production and qa. take a > >level 0 archive of production using ontape. i want to "restore" > >the production data from the ontape to the qa instance but get > >the following message: > > > >Physical restore failed - ONCONFIG ROOTPATH: '/links/rootdbs_qa' > >differs from archive: '/links/rootdbs_prod'. Correct ONCONFIG > >before restoring this archive." > > > >environment: > > > >informix 7.22.uc3 > >rs-6000 > > > > > >______________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > There is one thing that makes it a bit easier: use symbolic links for the chunks. Then you could change the symbolic links temporarily to point to another physical device. Of course, you would have to stop the other instance during that time. Regards -- Helmut Leininger Bull AG / Vienna Unix Support Email: Helmut.Leininger@bull.net This opinion is mine and not necessarily that of my employer. No guarantees whatsoever.