RE: Migrating from AIX to NT
Actually, AIX has 4KB pages as well.
Do the two machines exist on the same network? Art Kagel has a utility
called dbcopy (available on the IIUG web site) that will copy from one
database to another. I use it all the time to populate my development
machine with sample data from production.
-----Original Message-----
From: Yuri Dovgart [mailto:y_dovgart@tci.ukrtel.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 6:35 AM
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Migrating from AIX to NT
Joben O. Rara <joben@iname.com> wrote in message
news:3817E048.62C4925E@iname.com...
> Is it possible to back-up to tape on AIX then restore the tape to NT.
>
> We have a large database on our AIX box and we need to migrate it to our
> new NT server. having a tape drive on both ends makes the above strategy
> seem natural. However, I was told that backup to tape on Unix and
> restore to NT is not guaranteed to work.
Of course, not ! This platforms have different page sizes - NT has 4 KB
page. I recommend you use dbexport\\dbimport to move between platforms.
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>
> Has anyone done something similar before?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joben Rara
>