Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!tacitus!clh From: clh@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca (Chris Hermansen) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Duplicating Informix SQL Database Keywords: Informix SQL SCO Xenix ranting raving Message-ID: <111@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca> Date: 27 Sep 89 19:23:27 GMT References:<574@pan.UUCP> <2411@infmx.UUCP> Reply-To: clh@tfic.bc.ca (Chris Hermansen) Organization: Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants, Vancouver BC Lines: 15 Sorry, I replied to the original poster by e-mail, but all this flailing about makes me want to follow up too :-) I had a similar problem that was caused by: cd oldinformixdir; find . -depth -print | cpio -pdl newinformixdir After I made some changes and turned *both* databases to junk, I realized what I'd done... DON'T USE THE l OPTION TO cpio!!!! Chris Hermansen Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants Voice: 1 604 733 0731 302 - 958 West 8th Avenue FAX: 1 604 733 0634 Vancouver B.C. CANADA uunet!ubc-cs!van-bc!tacitus!clh V5Z 1E5 or Chris_Hermansen@mtsg.ubc.ca