Windows 2 Unix Level 0 Restore

Currently we have our application running on a Windows 2000 Server using Informix 9.3. We have around 12 Disks and the dbspaces are distributed across these disks. The Dbspace path are as follows :- 42b68918 1 1 0 128000 73422 PO- c:\\ifmxdata\\rootdbs.d01 4309c558 2 2 0 125000 57 PO- f:\\ifmxdata\\cTrxn01.d01 4309e9f0 27 27 0 275000 205883 PO- j:\\ifmxdata\\otrxn03.d01 430a02e8 44 44 0 75000 66786 PO- m:\\ifmxdata\\stmtlinks02.d01 430a1018 53 53 0 50000 28935 PO- j:\\ifmxdata\\stmt07.d01 430a52e8 66 66 0 125000 99197 PO- n:\\ifmxdata\\applog09.d01 ... ... If I want to restore the Windows Level 0 in a Unix Box , can I create a similar dbspace file in the Unix box and directly restore the Level 0 backup. I am trying to aviod doing a dbexport/dbimport between the Windows and Unix Box. I think if we create a link file in the name c:\\ifmxdata\\rootdbs.01 in unix which will point to the actual rootdbs in a Raw Partition or a Unix File system we should be able to directly restore the level 0. Please comment on this. Dhaya

you can't use an archive to move between Windows and UNIX There is a section in the manual dedicated to migrating between different operating systems http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idshelp/v10/topic/com.ibm.mig.doc/mig130.htm#sii-10mdseds- Choose one of the following sets of migration utilities to unload the databases: dbexport and dbimport UNLOAD, dbschema, and LOAD UNLOAD, dbschema, and dbload