Re: Upgrading to version 10 ontape question

The way we used to do this when evaluating and testing a 7.x -> 9.x upgrade is to have 2 INFORMIXDIRS. 7.x was installed in one, and 9.x in the other. We'd set INFORMIXDIR to the 7.x server directory, restore the database using ontape or onbar, then shut down the server. The 9.x instance was configured pointing to the same devices, so it just did an in-place db upgrade when we started 9.x the first time after each restore. We never had any issues. I don't see why this wouldn't work for a 9.x to 10.x upgrade. -- Mike Varney / HRI "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendip To ita.com> "bozon" <curtis@crowson1.com> Sent by: cc informix-list-bou informix-list@iiug.org nces@iiug.org Subject Re: Upgrading to version 10 ontape question 05/24/2006 10:10 AM bozon said: > Is there a way to have version 10 of ontape read version 9.21 archives? > The Configuration Management (CM) people tried put failed. I just > assumed you couldn't do it so I never tried. The problem is that > production is 9.21 but we are testing 10 getting ready for the glorious > day that we upgrade to 10.0 UC4. So now inorder to restore a production > copy to our test system we have to down grade a test server restore the > 9.21 and then re-upgrade the server. It would be OK if we didn't have 3 > instances per test server running that had to be off line while we were > restoring the production servers which took 4 - 6 hours. I suspect that even if this did work, it would be entirely unsupported. Why not try dbexport or dbcopy or something? -- Bye now, Obnoxio Information within this post contains forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21B of the S E C Act of 1934. Statements that involve discussions with respect to projections of future events are not statements of historical fact and may be forward looking statements. Don't rely on them to make a decision. The poster is not a reporting company registered under the Exchange Act of 1934. I have received a life peerage from Her Majesty, who is not an officer, minister or affiliate Labour party member. I intend to recover my loan now, which could cause the parliamentary majority to go down, resulting in losses for you. Today's Labour party has: an accumulated deficit and a reliance on loans from officers and affiliates to pay expenses. It is not an operating political party. The party is going to need financing to continue as a going concern. A failure to finance could cause the party to go out of business. This report shall not be construed as any kind of investment advice or solicitation. You can lose all your money by investing in this party. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list