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Transferring Data with the Imported Restore

With the imported restore feature, you can transfer all the data from one instance of the database server to the same instance on a foreign host. For example, you can back up data to ISM on one computer and restore it to ISM on a different computer. You can perform imported restores using either whole system (serial) or storage-space (parallel) backups. The parallel backup must include all storage spaces and logical logs. You must also use compatible versions of XBSA libraries and ISM for both operations.

Important:
You cannot use a backup from one database server version to restore on a different version. You can, however, change the database server name in an imported restore.

The imported restore is a subset of the following three processes:

As its name implies, you can also use the imported restore solely to complete an imported restore.

An imported restore consists of these three steps:

  1. Backing up the source database server to ISM
  2. Porting ISM to a target computer that is a different physical host
  3. Restoring the data from ISM to the target database server with the same instance on the target computer

These procedures are discussed in detail in the following sections.

Important:
The imported restore procedure is the same for both UNIX and Windows. However, when you set the environment variables, you must use the appropriate UNIX or Windows syntax.
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