Re: How to move Online5 system to another disk

I did this once, keeping the system online the 99% of the whole time (a manufacturing shop floor). I mirrored each of the new disks to the old disks, let Online image them and then once they were all ready, changed the symbolic links and brought them up as the primaries. Worked great and our total down time was under 5 minutes. The downside is that the devices I created on the new (larger) drives had to be the same size as the old ones - big deal, it're real easy to add that extra space back in as a separate chunk. cheers j. At 08:07 PM 11/22/97 GMT, you wrote: }Dear fellow Informixers, } }our database server got a couple of new harddisks, and I'd like to move }the complete Online system over to the new disks, so I can re-use the }old ones in another machine. } }I have Online 5.07.UC1, running under SINIX 5.43C10. } }How is it possible to move the complete Online system to the new disks? }They are bigger than the old ones, so I'm afraid I cannot just do a }restore of a level 0 archive. The raw device used by Informix is a }symbolic link, maybe that helps. } }Regards, Richard }-- }+----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ }| Dr. Richard Spitz | INTERNET: spitz@ana.med.uni-muenchen.de | }| EDV-Gruppe Anaesthesie | Tel : +49-89-7095-3413 | }| Klinikum Grosshadern | FAX : +49-89-7095-8886 | }| 81366 Munich, Germany | | }+----------------------------+-------------------------------------------+ } }