how to change the default location of rootdbs

I have installed innovator-c 11.7 with default settings. when I do onstat -d /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/rootdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/plogdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/llogdbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/datadbs /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/tempdbs I would like to move the above to a different location for example /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/TESTdbspaces/rootdbs I tried moving the folder dbspaces to TESTdbspaces I updated the onconfig.ol_informix1170 to point to TESTdbspaces But oninit won't start stating it can't find rootdbs. What am I missing?

I think you should be able to do a cold restore from backup, and use the -rename option of 'ontape'. DG

I believe one problem is that the reserved pages stored on disk at the beginning of rootdbs still point to the old location. These reserved pages are read at startup so that oninit can find the rest of the disk files. Even if you change the location in the onconfig file, these reserved pages are what is used to find all of the other chunks and dbspaces. If your rootdbs has multiple chunks, that definitely would cause a problem, as the second chunk would not exist where the reserved pages say it should be. Even if rootdbs is a single chunk, the chunks that make up the remaining dbspaces are no longer in the original location. If you don't need the /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces directory for other things, you can create a symbolic link (Unix/Linux) or a junction (Windows) so that your new .../TESTdbspaces points to the original .../dbspaces directory, and put the files back in that directory. Otherwise, the suggestion of renaming the files during ontape restore is probably your best bet. >> I have installed innovator-c 11.7 with default settings. >> when I do onstat -d >> /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/rootdbs >> /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/plogdbs >> /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/llogdbs >> /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/datadbs >> /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/dbspaces/tempdbs >> >> I would like to move the above to a different location for example >> /usr1/Informix/ol_informix1170/TESTdbspaces/rootdbs >> >> I tried moving the folder dbspaces to TESTdbspaces >> >> I updated the onconfig.ol_informix1170 to point to TESTdbspaces >> >> But oninit won't start stating it can't find rootdbs. >> >> What am I missing?