On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 08:25, rodbracher wrote:

> Our Clients are using Firebird on a Windows server platform.
>
> We would like them to use Linux as the server and client computers
> remain windows.
>
> To move the GDB from windows to linux - do I simply backup (using -t)
> and copy file over and restore ?

Backup/Restore is always a good idea, keep a copy around. Keep the
windows server available, do some testing on the Linux server, until
your confident that everything is working smoothly, at this point if it
gets FUBAR you can blow the database away, since the Windows machine is
still in production. Once your happy then just do the backup restore
again, and cut over.

Couple of things to keep in mind, Linux doesn't have drive letters, and
uses the forward slash (/) for paths rather then the back slash (\),
since database paths are relative to the server, you need to make sure
they are facing the right way. If your application is written
correctly, this shouldn't be an issue.

UDF's and libraries may not be available or may work slightly
differently, so be careful with those.

Paul

>
> Are there any articel links re such a migration.
>
> Anything vital to look out for ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rod
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