moving Informix DB from HP-UX to AIX

[Basheer Azeemuddin]

Any suggestions for migration
of
Informix V 7.31 Hp-UX 10.20
To
Infomrix V 9.xx AIX 4.33
The DB is about 10GB

[harry d brown jr]

Are you using RAW disk on your HP box, and what do you plan on using on your AIX box?

live free or die
harry

[Basheer Azeemuddin]

Thanks Harry
I am using RAW Devices (Managed by LVM)
Want to use RAW in AIX

[harry d brown jr]

That will be a problem, because HP and AIX do not have the same lvm structure, so copying the raw disks from one system won't work. Your best bet is extracting the data from informix ("exporting") on the HP side and then "importing" it on the AIX side.


live free or die
harry

[harry d brown jr]

Your best bet is "ontape".

live free or die
harry

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

I suspect that your only real alternative is an import/export. First, the version differences are large enough so that the data is probably not compatiable. Secondly, I'm not sure that the data representations between the two platforms are equivalent.

[harry d brown jr]

I don't think AIX is a byte swapped machine, but your informix utilities will/should handle it anyways.

live free or die
harry