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dbeavon
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Yes, I found there was another product that Progress sells which actually makes a cross-platform backup/restore feasible. It comes from "bravepoint" and its named "pro d&l". This *should* be bundled for free with PDSOE. Most developers would benefit from having a copy of production data on their development workstations. In our case, my Progress databases come from HP-UX. It was a *massive* pain to finally move it over - via the so-called "binary dump and load". Last month when I attempted this stuff, I got scared quickly and had to R-U-N-N-O-F-T. ( www.youtube.com/watch ) This month I tried again. I must have read about 2 dozen KB's (*not* a joke) on the topic of everything from storage extents, blocksizes, "proutil" commands for indexing, loading large data records before small ones, and on and on and on. I now have a five page document on how to get a developer copy of a production database. I know *infinitely* more than I ever wanted to about this (that is to say zero). Progress needs to seriously consider placing a huge abstraction layer on this process, whereby a person can point at a database on one server and click a button that says "Move It" . Remember that the database is only moving to a developer instance of the OE database server. It would normally be on a local SSD, for private use, and the risks for screwing something up are minimized. In this type of scenario a developer should not have to sift thru the minutiae in the KB, or waste days of manual effort. This shouldn't be so hard.
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