Re: 2K page restore from 4K archive

Posted in 1996

David Williams — Mon, 17 Jun 1996 23:13:45 +0100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <31C5A303.23@jaxnet.com>, "David K. Carter" <dcarter@jaxnet.com> writes >Does anyone know if it is possible to restore a level 0 archive from a Sequent >4K page machine to a Dec Alpha >2K page machine. We also have a version difference. Sequent runs Informix 4.1 >and Dec Alpha runs 7.12 >Please help. No, I do not think it is possible The version difference makes it impossible since v7 supports fragmentation and does not support rowids so the way data is stored is differnet. With a 2K page instead of a 4K page the data on disk is interpreted differently. i.e. date and time stamps at the start/end of each page will not lineup. -- David Williams