>
> Teresa,
>
> If you move between equal machines
> Say solaris -> solaris
> or windows -> windows
>
> the repfered copy method is using uasm as it knows about indexes
>
> normal tar is not recommended and a normal networker backup will not backup
> those files properly
>
> looking at your path names I assume you du have some kind of unix machine
>
> so some kind of uasm | rsh uasm
>
> see also man uasm
>
> <<<
>
> Maarten

As long as Networker is down, and as long as I'm going to the same
machine (solaris -> solaris), I've never had any problems using normal
utilities (ufsdump, tar, etc).

I've often done this for copying the indexes/databases to a separate
machine for restores without doing a mmrecov.

The only issue with using OS tools should be the same as any other
running database.  You can't tell when the data is cached and when it's
on disk.  As long as the application (Networker) is shut down,
everything should be fine.

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