Re: upgrade ifx 10 to 11 via ontape L0

Hi, backups are not to be used for restore in a different version of IDS. Therefore they are not useable for upgrades. You are adviced to take a backup before upgrade, but that is just for data safety. To restore it you'd first have to go back to the version with which the backup was taken. Right. After taking the backup you start IDS with the new version. This may be installed in a different directory, but then at a minimum you'd have to copy over the sqlhosts file and the onconfig file. The new IDS will do any necessary conversion of the data. After that the upgrade is finished. At this point I advice you to again take a backup - with the new version. Regards, Martin -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management IBM Deutschland GmbH Chairman of the Supervisory Board: Hans Ulrich Märki Board of Management: Martin Jetter (Chairman), Rudolf Bauer, Christian Diedrich, Christoph Grandpierre, Matthias Hartmann, Thomas Fell, Michael Diemer Corporate Seat: Stuttgart, Germany; Reg.-Gericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB-Nr.: 14 562 WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940 informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 18.12.2007 14:56:51: > Hi, > > Is it possible to load the full ontape level zero backup from ifx 10 xC4 > on to a 11 xC2 version? Both would be running on 32bit linux boxes. > > Or is the only way for upgrade to install ifx 11 instead of ifx 10 and > then give ifx 11 the path to the ifx 10 data on disk and just start it up? > > Regards, > > -- > Aleksander Kamenik > system administrator > +372 6659 649 > aleksander@krediidiinfo.ee > > Krediidiinfo AS > http://www.krediidiinfo.ee/ > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list