Re: dbexport across multiple tapes

In article <50fi20$s8l@nntp.interaccess.com>, Irwin Goldstein <irwin@objectsoft.com> writes >Sorry for the previous empty posting... > >Does anyone know if dbexport and dbimport support exports/imports which >span multiple tapes? I have a database which is too large to fit on a single >tape which I wish to move from one machine to another. Can this be done with >dbexport/dbimport? Can anyone suggest other and/or better ways to do this? I'd >to >minimize downtime. The two machines will differ greatly in disk configuration >(this >is part of the reason for the move) so ontape/onarchive do not seem to be >alternatives. > >TIA > >Irwin Be very carefull if you are using V5. It was over a year ago that I saw these bugs and I cannot remember the exact details. We were using 5.00 and later upgraded to 5.05. I don't know which version the bug was in. 1) Make sure that the tape size you are using is an exact multiple of the block size. 2) If you are using blobs, there is a bug in the tape header if you use the -f parameter. We found these bugs while rebuilding a 45Gb database after an earlier corruption. ;-( We only managed to import our data after having Informix support dialled into our machine at all hours of the day and night creating and uploading patches. HTH -- ######################################### # Neil Stevenson # # DSW Computer Systems Limited # # E-mail : neil@dsw2.demon.co.uk # # WWW : http://www.dsw2.demon.co.uk/ # # Voice : +44-1236-731330 # # Fax : +44-1236-731330 # #########################################