Huh ... why so difficult?
1. Stop your databases.
2. Truncate bi-files.
3. Copy complete databasefiles (*.db, *.bi, *.ai) to your new server.
4. Start your servers.

I migrated from SCO to linux this way.
2x Xeon and Raid5
No problem at all.


Frédéric STOCK schreef:
> Hello,
>
> on new server: running SCO Unix OSR 5.06a, P4 xeon dual-core
> 2 Gb ddram
> 4 73Gb scsi hdd in raid-5
> Progress V8.3C 11
>
> multi-volume database
> 15 512mb vol + 1 free vol.
>
> I made a online probkup of this database from our actual server (bi P3
> xeon, SCO Unix OSR5.06a, Progress V8.3C11).
> I created the multi-volume database on the new server using the prostrct
> utility and restore it.
> When trying to rebuild indexes using "proutil database_name -TM 31 -TB
> 31 -G 0 -C idxbuild all" (same error in all indexes or some), during
> phase 1 block 3799040 of 4672721 it fails
>
> "SYSTEM ERROR: erreur E/S 0 sur writeto,ret 1536,fich. 6(srt),addr
> 2147481600 (290)"
>
> What's this 1536 error code ?
> How could I resolv it ?
> Thank's.
>
> F. STOCK