Hi, everybody. Got a question for the experts.

I have a client who runs Informix Dynamic Server 7.20 UC3 on a SCO
Unixware 7.01 box and has done for 5+ years.

We had a disaster recovery PC of identical configuration which was
tested regularly to see if the customer's ontape backups could be
restored.

Unfortunately the motherboard on this PC has failed and a repair would
be prohibitive, so we are looking at upgrading the disaster PC.
Unfortunately our research has found out that Unixware 7.01 is not
compatible with modern hardware and never will be as SCO no longer
support it. Herefore we must upgrade software too.

My question is thus, what parameters are important in being able to
restore ontapes. Could we change to MS Windows 2000 Server and still be
able to restore? Could we change from using RAW DISK SPACE to
filesystems? Is just the onconfig file important or are other
parameters used?

Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks.