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Clearcase: Hiden view-private files not coming over after reformatview

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We are trying to migrate views from Solaris to Unix. So we are doing a "reformat -dump" on the Solaris end and then a "reformat -load" on the Linux end.

All's going well EXCEPT - any "." view-private files (hidden files) are not coming over. Any ideas how I can make sure that these files are brought over as well?

posted Jan 14, 2014 by Majula Joshi

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In the case of a dynamic view, if the view database requires recovery, some information may be lost in the dump/load process. View lost+found directory with your old view reference I am not sure that you can get that hidden file or not but that is only way to migrate view from one host to other host

answer Jan 16, 2014 by Amit Kumar Pandey
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