Re: Migrating data from OnLine 4.1 to 5
Posted in 1995
Robert Borrell — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
Liam Kenneally <kenneall> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We are planning to move from OnLine 4.1 to OnLine 5
>The upgrade includes a disk change with a reinitialized,
>resized diskspace, (ie the rootdbs is being increased on
>the new disk).
>
>For this reason we cannot use an archive/restore to move
>the databases.
>
>Does anyone know of a reason why we can't use
>tbunload/tbload to migrate the data ?
>
>Thanks,
> Liam
>
I recently tacked this problem. On a support call, the tbunload/tbload
creates binary images of the database. Hence, the old format is not
compatitible with the new format.
The only solution is to use dbexport and dbimport.
Good Luck
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Robert