The purpose of the mount and unmount commands is to make it possible to transport databases from one source Adaptive Server to another destination Adaptive Server.
When you copy a database you must use a command outside of Adaptive Server, such as UNIX dd or ftp, to create a byte-for-byte copy of all pages in a set of one or more databases.
When you move a set of databases from a source Adaptive Server to a destination Adaptive Server, you are physically moving the underlying devices.
For more information, see Chapter 22, “Database Mount and Unmount,” in the System Administration Guide.
