RE: Copying a database - suggestions please
Spheroids
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ye Chenwen [mailto:yechenwen@netnet.com.sg]
> Sent: 31 March 1999 10:19
> To: informix-list@iiug.org
> Subject: Re: Copying a database - suggestions please
>
>
> Ever consider to buy a RAID storage system? You'll never need
> to do any
> backup once you get one.
>
> Neil Truby wrote in message <7ddli4$227$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>...
> >IDS v7.24. UC6, HP-UX 10.20.
> >
> >I need to make a copy of a large dataabse (about 30GBytes) from one
> database
> >server to another but on the same UNIX server. There are
> the options I've
> >considered:
> >
> >1. onunload/onload - a non-starter as a big in onload
> means that IDS
> >tries to put detacted indexes back into their original dbspaces - but
> >there's no equivalent option to put the tables back into
> original spaces.
> >
> >2. ontape back-up/restore - will only work if I do
> something smart-arse
> >with chroot
> >
> >3. DBMS or hardware mirroring - not possible to make any
> use of this
> once
> >the links are broken.
> >
> >So I'm left with good old, slow old, dbexport/dbimport.
> Unless anyone has
> a
> >better idea????????
> >
> >thanks
> >Neil
> >
> >
>
>