One of my customers has an 84Gbyte instance which contains a lare
number of databases. They run this 24 by 7. For administrative
reasons they require to access a copy of the database from about 2
months ago, but they can't revert the whole system.
They do have a parallel machine running the same OS, same version of
IDS, etc, but it doesn't have enough disk space to restore the whole
instance.

The instance was backed up with ontape, is running on AIX 5.2 running
Informix IDS 9.30.
Is there any way we can do a restore without having all of the chunks
available?

I suspect we only need a few of the tables. And the dbspace that we
need to restore is at most 5 chunks of 2 Gbytes.

Any ideas much appreciated.

Malcolm