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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Informix
Components Informix Server
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 9, 2013

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated photos into our database, we no longer had the ability to conveniently clone a production database, without locking it.
  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2021

    Forgive if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that ifxclone takes the whole instance?

  • Guest
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    Jul 15, 2021

    Dear Customer,

    We reviewed this idea and we recommend you using IFXCLONE to solve the problem mentioned in the request.

    Thanks,
    Karthik Gopalakrishnan