Sounds like a plan. Thanks Mark !

I would hope that tran. backup and load is Okay in "productive / customer environments in a cross-platform scenario.

Asking this because I read a note in ASE 16 System Admin Guide-2 which is somehow confusing ....... personally I have tried this on my local test machine and it works though

Kind Regards,

Gaurav Sinha

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise 16.0> System Administration Guide 16.0: Volume 2> Developing a Backup and Recovery Plan> Using the dump and load Commands

Restrictions for Dumping and Loading Databases and Transactions

Dumping and loading databases and transactions includes restrictions.

• dump transactionand load transaction are not allowed across platforms.