Re: Replication on the same box ????

In article <54b8pu$2i8@news.informix.com>, Bill Glidden <glidden@informix.com> writes >: 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. Check your Admin Guide - ROOTPATH must be a full pathname, not a relative pathname -- David Williams