From your first original e-mail it sounded like you were planning on
having downtime - from your replies, it sounds like you want to migrate
hot (online) - keeping your system consistent.

For an online migration, you will have to use replication - I just
cannot comment on replicating between different versions, in this case
9.21 and 10.0

Dirk



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailtowner-informix-list@iiug.org]
On Behalf Of David E. Grove
Sent: 20 April 2005 12:41 AM
To: informix-list@iiug.org
Subject: Re: Migration question


>You can use multiple copies of my dbcopy utility to copy the data
> directly from the old server to the new one once the DB is setup. The
> utils4_ak package has awk scripts that post-process dbschema/myschema
output
> to produce a dbcopy script (among others).
>

Thank you, Art. I will check out dbcopy. I'm inferring from your
suggestion that dbcopy would facilitate getting a consistent copy of an
online database from one server to another. That sure would be what the
doctor ordered.

DG



sending to informix-list

> From your first original e-mail it sounded like you were planning on
> having downtime - from your replies, it sounds like you want to migrate
> hot (online) - keeping your system consistent.
>
> For an online migration, you will have to use replication - I just
> cannot comment on replicating between different versions, in this case
> 9.21 and 10.0
>

I apologize for "speaking out of both sides ofmy mouth". We had been
planning on downtime. I was just "wondering out loud" whether there was a
way to reduce or eliminate it.

I thank everyone for their comments.

DG