Re: restoring to new instance with onbar

'TECHNICALLY', you are restoring to the same instance (DBSERVERNAME), but that can always be changed after you have completed the restore. The trick is telling the storage manager to use the original client node name to restore to this node (most of them -- ISM excluded -- seem to have a way to do this without changing the machine name), copying the ixbar.0 file from the original server, and properly manipulating the sqlhosts and onconfig files (and the oncfg file, also). When you do the restore (if there already was a database on the receiving machine), make sure you explicitly specify physical and then logical restore (OnBar -r -p followed by onbar -r -l) or onbar will try to copy the existing logs to the storage manager, with the ORIGINAL client name. HTH, Doug <kirk_wells@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:8ct1r1$ahd$1@nnrp1.deja.com... > It is my understanding that you can not perform an onbar restore from an > instance on one machine to an instance with a different name on another > machine. I know this can be performed using ontape, but I just wanted > to verify that it is not possible to do this using onbar. > > Thanks, > > Kirk > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy.