Tranferring database from HP-UX to AIX using OnBar

Hello, Can I transfer an Informix database (version 7.24) from a HP-UX machine to an AIX machine, using On-Bar (or any method other than dbexport/dbimport)? The local Informix support told me that this is not feasible, due to AIX disk pages being 4k, while HP-UX pages are 2k. But since the database is on raw-devices, does this make sense? Is there any way to transfer the database, using any backup tool (either Unix or Informix-based) between these two systems? Thanks for the help, Cesar Remove the _nospam_ from the e-mail address before sending.

=?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar?= Diniz Maciel (cmaciel@br.ibm.com) wrote: : Hello, : Can I transfer an Informix database (version 7.24) from a HP-UX : machine to an AIX machine, using On-Bar (or any method other than : dbexport/dbimport)? The local Informix support told me that this is not : feasible, due to AIX disk pages being 4k, while HP-UX pages are 2k. But : since the database is on raw-devices, does this make sense? : Is there any way to transfer the database, using any backup tool : (either Unix or Informix-based) between these two systems? : Thanks for the help, : Cesar NO, it can't be done. Even ontape won't work neither. There's why we didn't bought HP after we have a few IBM... Chris

Mr Cheuk Kong Lo wrote: > > =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=E9sar?= Diniz Maciel (cmaciel@br.ibm.com) wrote: > : Hello, > : Can I transfer an Informix database (version 7.24) from a HP-UX > : machine to an AIX machine, using On-Bar (or any method other than > : dbexport/dbimport)? The local Informix support told me that this is not > : feasible, due to AIX disk pages being 4k, while HP-UX pages are 2k. But > : since the database is on raw-devices, does this make sense? > : Is there any way to transfer the database, using any backup tool > : (either Unix or Informix-based) between these two systems? > > : Thanks for the help, > : Cesar > > NO, it can't be done. Even ontape won't work neither. There's why > we didn't bought HP after we have a few IBM... You could transfer the data from the HP server to the new AIX server over the network using my dbcopy.ec or a dedicated, transaction oriented, data copy application modeled after it. Dbcopy.ec is blazingly fast and the HP and AIX machines should be able to handle several copies per CPU VP so that you can copy several tables or objects in parallel. If you have FDDI, or better multiple network paths, you should be able to come close to tape speeds with the benefit that you do not have to wait for a tapeset to complete before beginning to see data on the target server. Art S. Kagel