Question regarding moving a database

A software package I support uses Informix Online as it DBMS engine. We often need to bring back customer databases to the lab to recreate and debug problems. Our software as it is currently written prohibits the use of dbexport and import as a way to move the database because certain type of data are lost. We have been using ontape to backup and restore the customer databases, but this is a bit of a pain the destination machine must have >= the size of the raw partition and we do not alwys have the original onconfig file or partition sizes. I was wondering if there is another way to do this? Will onunload/onload work here? Another wrinkle is that sometimes customers have had new chunks added since their original database partitions were getting full. They later get a new faster machine and want to move their database and consolidate their chunks back into the original arrangement. Can this be easily done? Yours truly, yet another Informix neophyte...... -- John & Cassy Montgomery email: montgomery@igs.net Kanata, Ontario, Canada URL: http://www.igs.net/~montgomery