Re: Replication on the same box ????

: In article <3266976B.6779@geocities.com>, Manickam R Muthukumar : <muthukumar@geocities.com> writes : >Hi cid folks, : > : > I am having SUN 1000 with SUN OS, I am : >wondering whether we can replicate an Informix : >instance on the same box. I know that we have to : >restore from level-0 archive to start the : >replication which will try to write on to the same : >chunks. My question is there any work around for : >this. Any help is greatly appreciated. : > Actually, yes this can be done. I assume you're only doing this for testing purposes and wouldn't dare dream of doing this in a production environment??? The way you do this is to use relative path names for your chunks: ROOTPATH ./my_chunk Then you start OnLine from the directory that is the parent of my_chunk. Do this with both the primary and secondary instances from 2 different directories. To illustrate: Make your chunks cd /primary touch my_chunk chmod, chown, etc. cd /secondary touch my_chunk chmod, chown, etc. Youll be able to use the same INFORMIXDIR, but you'll need separate onconfig files, because each instance will have to have different server numbers, DBSERVERNAME, etc. Also, even though both instances are on the same machine you will still need a network connection since DR wants to work over the network. Will a litle experimentation you should be able to make this work.