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- From: davek@informix.com (David Kosenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: porting a database to ano
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.152425.24080@informix.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 15:24:25 GMT
- References: <memo.579268@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Sender: news@informix.com (Usenet News)
- Organization: Informix Software, Inc.
- Lines: 28
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- >> ->What is the best way to move a DATABASE from one machine to
- >> ->another?
-
- >> This is probably a RTFM question, but I've asked the same question
- >> before... I use DBEXPORT to export the db schema and the data. DBEXPORT
- >> and go to disk or tape. On the other system, use DBIMPORT to create and
- >> load the database.
-
- >Well, if that database isn't *too* big and you've a TPC/IP
- >connection why not just RCP it?
-
- This discussion brings up a pretty good point. Informix has 2 different
- database servers, INFORMIX-SE and INFORMIX-OnLine. The middle text above
- pretty much assumes the person asking the original question was using OnLine
- (as dbimport and dbexport ship only with OnLine). The second solution
- assumes SE (as you cannot rcp OnLine data, at least not directly {of course,
- someone will respond that they do it all the time ;-)}).
-
- I think what can be derived from this discussion is: when asking questions
- about Informix, it is a good idea to indicate which of our two servers you
- are using, as the answer may well be different for the two.
-
- Dave
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