Saturday March 11 1995, Christopher Bockner writes to John Poltorak:

 CB> Copying a Database..?  How..?  Do you want to run the database on the same
 CB> copy of the DBM, or on another copy of it.  If you run it on the same copy
 CB> of the DBM, I think you have to rename it.  Anyway, in order to do any of
 CB> this, you need torename it, back it up, restore the name of the original
 CB> database, and then restore the the backed up copy of the database. I
 CB> haven't tried this sort of stuff, so there may be an easier way, but this
 CB> is all I can think of.

Someone was wanting a way of running a long report against a production
database without impacting normal database users. I suggested copying the
database and running a separate low-priority job aginst this copy of the
original, but when I thought about it, I couldn't work out how to achieve
what I had suggested.  I suppose, if I can't copy the database onto a
different drive, I could copy it to a different machine, along with DBM and
run it there...

John

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