Re: Copying a database - suggestions please

>From: "Ye Chenwen" <yechenwen@netnet.com.sg> > >Ever consider to buy a RAID storage system? You'll never need to do any >backup once you get one. Ooooohhhh, are you digging your own grave here. :-) What happens if your building burns down, for instance? >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 >> >> > > -- "I'll Be Back" Obnoxio ************************************************ Sane? Hell, if I was sane, why would I be here? Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com