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.
- 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.
- Test both backups using the PROREST utility with the Full Verify (-
vf
) parameter.- Delete the single-volume database.
- 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.
- Use PROSTRCT CREATE to create the new void multi-volume structure. For details, see the command description in Database Administration Utilities."
- Use PROREST to restore the backup into the void structure.
The resulting database is then ready to use with Progress and can be directly converted to Progress Version 9.
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