RE: Move and resize rootdbs

The Informix Migration Guide provides an excellent description of these utilities. Pages 1-15 and 1-16 contain a diagram to help in choosing the appropriate utility. My understanding is onunload/onload performs a page level copy, where dbexport/dbimport deal with text files. Therefore, onunload/onload is faster, but not as flexible. -----Original Message----- From: olaf@uksd.com [mailto:olaf@uksd.com] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 12:38 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Move and resize rootdbs On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:18:24 +0100, "Neil Truby" <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> wrote: >Olaf Kratzsch wrote in message <371b6161.5975061@212.7.128.161>... >>Our hole database (2,5 GB) in currently in only 1 DBSPACE the rootdbs >>I know that this is horrible but I didn't installed it, it was >>SIEMENS. >> >>Now I get a new Raid-System which is very much faster and I want to >>move my rootdbs to this RAID and I want to create new DBSPACES for >>TEMP, LOG and DATA and want the rootdbs resize to approx. 300 MB. >> >>How can I do it ? Must I move the data with dbexport and dbimport >>into the new DATA-DBSPCAES and recreate the rootdbs with an oninit -i >>after I changed the size in onconfig and changed the Link to my new >>RAID ?? > >Yes. You might find onunload/onload quicker. What are the differences between onunload/onload and dbexport/dbimport ??? GREETINGS OLAF > >Neil > >