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Getting started IB6
Migrating to a new server
This section describes the recommended steps for installing InterBase 6 as a new server
and then migrating databases from a previous InterBase 5 installation. The process differs
only slightly from an in-line install.
1. Back up all databases on the version 5 server. Include isc4.gdb if you want to
preserve your configured user IDs. Shut down the databases before backup
to ensure that no transactions are in progress.
2. Install the version 6 server.
3. Start the new version 6 server.
- On WindowsNT, go to Services in the Control Panel and start the InterBase
Guardian.
- On Windows 9x, run the InterBase Guardian application.
- On UNIX platforms, issue the following command to start the InterBase Superserver
as user “interbase”:
# echo "/usr/interbase/bin/ibmgr -start -forever" | su interbase
Note that InterBase can run only as user “root” or user “interbase” on UNIX.
4. Copy the database backup files to the new server and restore each database
from its backup file. This process creates InterBase 6, ODS 10, dialect 1
databases.
Save your backup files until your migration to dialect 3 is complete.
5. To restore the list of valid users, follow these steps:
a. Restore isc4.gbk to isc4_old.gdb
b. Shut down the server
c. Copy isc4_old.gdb over isc4.gdb
d. Copy isc4_old.gbk over isc4.gbk
e. Restart the server
6. Perform a full validation of each database on the new server.
After performing these steps, you have an InterBase 6 server and InterBase 6, dialect 1
databases. See “About InterBase 6, dialect 1 databases” on page 36 to understand more
about these databases. See “Migrating databases to dialect 3” on page 37 for a description
of how to migrate databases to dialect 3. See “Migrating clients” on page 45 for an
introduction to client migration.
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