hello, have v82 backup copy of database from solaris. want to restore
on v95 on aix. container paths(mount points) are obviously different.
have ftp'ed the backup to aix. will redirected restore work or
supposed to be restricted. if restricted, how can it made to work?
automatic storage or something?
Thanks for time,
Suri

It depends... YES for Solaris/Sparc but NO for Solaris/x86
This is because of the endianity: AIX is big and only Sparc/Solaris is
big.
You can only restore to same endianity (the oder of the bytes).
I would assume that a restore from v8 to v9(.5) would work, the DB
will be migrated automatically right after the restore. Be sure to
have enough space available for the system area, because e.g. the
files for the tablespaces will have 4times the size than before and
you have enough LOGspace.

On Oct 28, 1:26=A0am, RNBJ <rnbjr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hello, have v82 backup copy of database from solaris. want to restore
> on v95 on aix. container paths(mount points) are obviously different.
> have ftp'ed the backup to aix. will redirected restore work or
> supposed to be restricted. if restricted, how can it made to work?
> automatic storage or something?
> Thanks for time,
> Suri

thanks ! yes we have sparc, so that not an issue. only thing is db2
manual says cannot use redir. restore for transfer between diff OS. Am
confused by that.