What procedures exist for change raw devices to filesystem?

[Former Member]

What procedures exist for change raw devices to filesystem?

I understand that only you can:

- Backup Full (System with raw device) and Restore in System with Filesystem

- Export/Import

Specifically I want to know:

A backup (created in MaxDB 7.5 with DB in Rawdevices) can be restored on another System, with DB in file system??

Someone could give me details of the procedure?

Someone knows another method?

Greetings to all.

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

> Specifically I want to know:

> A backup (created in MaxDB 7.5 with DB in Rawdevices) can be restored on another System, with DB in file system??

No problem as long as

- the target systems database version is at the same patchlevel (or higher)

- the target database is big enough

- the target system has the same endianess (you can e. g. not import a backup from Windows to HP-UX)

A SAPDB/MaxDB backup has no information about the source filesystem setup, it contains only pages. There has "just" to be enough space to restore them.

Markus

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Markus for your response.

All right, thank you