Problem with dbexport

Hi, For some reasons we had to take the dbexport of the database, to be dbimported later. The dbexport went off smoothly, or so we thought. When he had to dbimport back it ran into problems, as mentioned below:- 1.{ unload file name = area_00100.unl number of rows = 120 } The "number of rows" mentioned above is critical for dbimport, bcos it matches it with the .unl file. In our case we found that while the .unl file has correct # of rows, the number of rows mentoned above was incorrect. It was much less than the actual # of rows. Consequently dbimport died with error message "dbimport data corrputed". 2. One table had a field missing in the table definition but that field was present in the .unl file. As a result dbimport died with an error message "no of fields do not match no of columns". 3. Some of the stored procedures weren't up to date. It was reflecting the older version. We were forced to reload data from the tape and take dbexport again. But this time it was successful. Version: Informix IDS 7.30UC8 Hardware: IBM RS6000 running AIX 4.3.2 Has anyone experienced this problem before. Is dbexport unreliable. Ravi. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.