Re: Moving databases

Nalneesh Gaur wrote: > > Newsgroup, > > I am migrating databases from one host to another same OS (Solaris). I > understand that we use dbexport/dbimport to move databases. I had read > somewhere that you cannot directly use the exported files and that those > files need to be changed. I am also curious about the challenges that > come with exporting/importing databases larger than 2GB. > > Thanx > > Nalneesh If your old and new versions of Informix are the same, then you can use onload/onunload to move the databases or, provided you've used symbolic links for your chunk names (or are very lucky), ontape. Both of these are likely to be faster than dbexport/dbimport, since they are binary, not ascii, outputs. Neil Truby Chase Manhattan Bank Bournemouth, UK