DB Maint.: Moving, Copying, or Renaming a Database

DANGER! You can corrupt your live database if you do not stop the InterBase Server as detailed below. Please follow this procedure closely.

(Related article: Copying Live Data to Test.)

Process
The following procedure applies to Bundle-Track versions 3.6 and above. Perform the following steps:

1. Instruct all Bundle-Track users to exit Bundle-Track and inform all users that the database will be down momentarily.
    
   
2. Stop the InterBase Server.
   • If relocating, do this on both the source and destination machines.
      
3. Rename or copy or relocate the database file.
    
4. Start the InterBase Server.
   • If relocating, do this only on the destination machine.
      
5. If you renamed or relocated the database file, do the following on each Client workstation:
   1. Run Bundle-Track Links to update the database connections.
   2. Tell the user of that workstation that they may use Bundle-Track again.
       

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