RE: Setting up copy on y2k test machine

why can=B4t you use files ? Raw devices are OK for production, but for = testing purposes files are much more flexible. > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Truby [SMTP:ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk] > Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 9:49 AM > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Setting up copy on y2k test machine >=20 > ??? > If you've got the same amount of disk space, and your using links for > chunk > names, you should be able to slice your disks up in a similar fashion = to > live. >=20 > What OS are you using? >=20 > Neil >=20 >=20 > Surfer! wrote in message ... > >In article <7f8c3p$dg8$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, Neil Truby > ><ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> writes > >>Well, chunks actually. > > > >Oh. No hope then as the Y2K machine has fewer larger disks (that's = the > >nature of progress) so whilst I could (and will) build dbspaces of = the > >same name & size no way can the chunks in them be the same. > > > >Back to dbexport/dbimport I think .... > > > >> > >>Neil > >> > >>Surfer! wrote in message ... > >>>In article <7elpt1$isv$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, Neil Truby > >>><ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> writes > >>>>Provided you set up your test Informix server with exactly the = same > path > >>>>names as those of the live, > >>> > >>>Presumably meaning for the dbspaces. This may be possible! > >>> > >>> > >>>> you can use a level 0 archive and restore. This > >>>>could, depending upon the size of your database server, save you = a lot > of > >>>>time. > >>>> > >>>>Neil > >>>>Surfer! wrote in message = <3V38HHAAxlD3EwKW@nevis-view.demon.co.uk>... > >>>>> > >>>>>I will be setting up a copy of an Online database & programs for = y2k > >>>>>testing. My thoughts on how to do this are to establish an = Online > >>>>>instance on that machine, and set up the dbspaces needed as per = the > >>>>>current database. Then we dbexport the live & dbimport into the > test. > >>>>>Any better ideas out there - for example is there something we = can do > >>>>>with a level 0 archive? They do one of those every day. > >>>>> > >> > > > >Surfer! > >URL: http://www.nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk > >Email: surfer@nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk > >Hopeful anti-spam: alter double 'w' to single 'w' to view site & = send > Email. >=20