Creating a mountable copy of a database

  1. Use the quiesce database command with the manifest clause and quiesce the database. This command creates a manifest file describing the database.

  2. Use the mount command with listonly to display the list of devices to be copied.

  3. Use external copy utilities, such as cp, dd, split mirror, and so on, to copy the database devices to another Adaptive Server.The copy of the devices and the manifest file is a mountable copy of the database.