Re: Setting up copy on y2k test machine

??? If you've got the same amount of disk space, and your using links for chunk names, you should be able to slice your disks up in a similar fashion to live. What OS are you using? Neil Surfer! wrote in message ... >In article <7f8c3p$dg8$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, Neil Truby ><ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> writes >>Well, chunks actually. > >Oh. No hope then as the Y2K machine has fewer larger disks (that's the >nature of progress) so whilst I could (and will) build dbspaces of the >same name & size no way can the chunks in them be the same. > >Back to dbexport/dbimport I think .... > >> >>Neil >> >>Surfer! wrote in message ... >>>In article <7elpt1$isv$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>, Neil Truby >>><ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> writes >>>>Provided you set up your test Informix server with exactly the same path >>>>names as those of the live, >>> >>>Presumably meaning for the dbspaces. This may be possible! >>> >>> >>>> you can use a level 0 archive and restore. This >>>>could, depending upon the size of your database server, save you a lot of >>>>time. >>>> >>>>Neil >>>>Surfer! wrote in message <3V38HHAAxlD3EwKW@nevis-view.demon.co.uk>... >>>>> >>>>>I will be setting up a copy of an Online database & programs for y2k >>>>>testing. My thoughts on how to do this are to establish an Online >>>>>instance on that machine, and set up the dbspaces needed as per the >>>>>current database. Then we dbexport the live & dbimport into the test. >>>>>Any better ideas out there - for example is there something we can do >>>>>with a level 0 archive? They do one of those every day. >>>>> >> > >Surfer! >URL: http://www.nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk >Email: surfer@nevis-vieww.demon.co.uk >Hopeful anti-spam: alter double 'w' to single 'w' to view site & send Email.