Progress
Database Administration
Guide and Reference


Converting a Single-volume Version 8 Database With PROREST

Follow these steps to convert a Progress Version 8 single-volume database to a multi-volume database, while minimizing disk space usage.

  1. Use the PROBKUP utility to back up the single-volume database. Create at least two backup copies of the database, so that if one copy is damaged, a second copy is available.
  2. Test both backups using the PROREST utility with the Full Verify (-vf) parameter.
  3. Delete the single-volume database.
  4. Create a structure description file to define the appropriate files for the multi-volume database. For details, see the "Converting a Single-volume Version 8 Database With PROCOPY" section.
  5. Use PROSTRCT CREATE to create the new void multi-volume structure. For details, see the command description in Database Administration Utilities."
  6. Use PROREST to restore the backup into the void structure.
  7. The resulting database is then ready to use with Progress and can be directly converted to Progress Version 9.


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