Re: upgrade ifx 10 to 11 via ontape L0

On 18/12/2007, Aleksander Kamenik <aleksander@krediidiinfo.ee> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to load the full ontape level zero backup from ifx 10 xC4 > on to a 11 xC2 version? Both would be running on 32bit linux boxes. > > Or is the only way for upgrade to install ifx 11 instead of ifx 10 and > then give ifx 11 the path to the ifx 10 data on disk and just start it up? > > Regards, > > -- > Aleksander Kamenik > system administrator > +372 6659 649 > aleksander@krediidiinfo.ee > > Krediidiinfo AS > http://www.krediidiinfo.ee/ > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > Aleksander It is (almost) never possible to restore an ontape archive from one version of IDS to another, even down to restoring between different Ux levels. Two ways to upgrade. First Install IDS11 in a new directory and point rootdbs, loglogdbs and physlogdbs in the config file to the old chunks and then start up. This is call an 'in place' upgrade. Has one or two initial requirements (such as no outstanding 'in place alters'), but is generally reliable, quick and simple. There is a back out procedure that allows reverse conversion. Second is to install IDS11, create a new config file and a new instance on fresh disk and then unload/reload all your data. Takes much longer but has the advantage of enabling new placement of data and indexes, defragmenting the data and generally tidying the instance. Your old instance is always available in the event of major issues and this method is easier to test as it is non-destructive of your data. Look at the Migration Guide, this is why it was written !! Keith