On 2006-09-20 08:33:36 +0200, Henrik Nilsson wrote: > Quick question; how to migrate dbi files from one os type (e.g. AIX) to > another (e.g. HP-UX)?
What are dbi files? DBI is a generic interface to SQL database systems.
It doesn't read or write any files - that is left to the database.
> The files (.dat / .dir / .pag) seem to become corrupt after moving them, or
> at least can not be read.
.dir and .pag could be DBM. I don't know about .dat. DBM-Files are
platform specific.
> Can they maybe be exported in some sort of platform neutral format and then
> imported?
Assuming the files are accessed using DBI, your best bet is to write
Scripts which dump the tables into CSV and restore it from there.
hp
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