Just another point. I presumed in my answer that you are doing this using the same OS. If not, backup/restore across different OS is not supported. You would have to use db2look and db2move to move across OS's. HTH, Pierre. Pierre Saint-Jacques wrote: > On the target machine: > 1) Build the identical path that you had on the source machine where you backed > up. > It should look like > X:\backup\dbname.0\instname\node0000\catn0000\YYYMMDD\one or more files > 2) Copy (ftp) only the file hhmmss.001 (and also any others with same name but > higher seq. no.) from this source in this target. > 3) Then: db2 restore dbname from x:\backup taken at YYMMDD ....... > > HTH, Pierre. (If it doesn't, get back to me). > "William R. Mussatto" wrote: > > > Ok, I am probably missing something basic, but what? > > > > I am using the DB2 version which came with Net.Commerce 3.1.2 > > (Websphere.Commerce Suite's predicessor). version 5.x of Db2 on Win Nt > > 4.0 sp 6a. I did an offline backup , ftpd the resulting file (binary > > mode) to the new machine. (Net commerce is stopped so that there is no > > other user of the database). From the command center I went to restore > > the database. I selected the database, selected restore database. I > > then browsed down to find the database backup I had created ( I've tried > > this from the MSER.0 level all the way down to the specific file with the > > same results), I get the notice that its starting and then a notice about > > 4 seconds later that it has finished with errors, The result, when I look > > at the "journal" report is "failed". Any thougths. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > William Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer > > CyberStrategies, Inc > > ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27 > > > > ===== > > To unsubscribe, send 'unsubscribe' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For other info (and scripts), see http://people.mn.mediaone.net/scottrmcleod
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